Today, at 1:15 p.m., Tyler Cowen and Russ Roberts will be debating Brad DeLong and Robert Solow about the topic of inequality and Thomas Piketty’s work. You can watch the event’s live stream here.

For some background on the debate, check out Heritage economists Salim Furth and Curtis Dubay’s new paper assessing Piketty, called “Understanding Thomas Piketty and His Critics.” The paper does a remarkable job at restating Piketty’s core argument in a concise and fair manner and then presenting the main critiques of it (showing why and how Piketty’s argument is flawed).

Here is a useful table from the paper.

I have written about Piketty’s housing problem here, Patrick had also a great piece summarizing and adding to my argument with Tyler Cowen about why the French weren’t freaking out about Piketty like the Americans.