Of course, there have been quite a few criticisms of Mr. Giles's analysis of Piketty. It seems to have been substantially worse (my opinion) than Piketty's errors.
See [1],"FT journalist accused of serious errors in Thomas Piketty takedown", [2] "Have Giles and the FT gone too far in the attack on Piketty?" (where the answer is "..On most points, Piketty has answered the points in a reasonable (and to me generally persuasive) way.", and [3] Piketty's response to Giles.
See [1],"FT journalist accused of serious errors in Thomas Piketty takedown", [2] "Have Giles and the FT gone too far in the attack on Piketty?" (where the answer is "..On most points, Piketty has answered the points in a reasonable (and to me generally persuasive) way.", and [3] Piketty's response to Giles.
1) http://www.theguardian.com/business/economics-blog/2014/may/...
2) http://www.primeeconomics.org/?p=2723
3) http://piketty.pse.ens.fr/files/capital21c/en/Piketty2014Tec...