Piketty contradicts Noah Smith on China, Noah cites him anyway

Piketty's new comparison of India and China arrives at the exact opposite conclusion that Noah does.

From Income and Wealth Inequality in India, 1922-2023 by Charti, Chancel, Piketty, and Somanchi.

I’d prefer that this blog not devolve into endlessly fact-checking liberals about scholarship, but this one is such a howler that it’s hard to ignore. Noah Smith is back on his compulsive anti-China campaign in a post today which argues that

India has accompli…