Piketty’s core inequality thesis is broadly accepted even where his remedies are contested.

Evidence

Many are arguing with Piketty’s policy prescriptions, few with his fundamental claim that capital accumulation without growth is at the bottom of intensifying inequality. — Wendy Brown, Undoing the Demos, 452

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the reader’s democratic-theory interest: inequality’s structural driver vs. political remedies is the same war fought over austerity.