Free exchange——A political economy
A new anthology of essays reconsidersThomas Piketty’s masterwork
1. anthology/ænˈθɔlədʒɪ; ænˋθɑlədʒɪ/ncollection of poems or piecesof prose on the same subject or by the same writer（同一主题或同一作者的）诗集,文集,选集
2. 卡尔·海因里希·马克思：德语：Karl HeinrichMarx
3. striking/ˈstraɪkɪŋ; ˋstraɪkɪŋ/adjattracting attention or interest引人注意的;饶有兴趣的:a striking display, effect饶有兴趣的展示﹑显着的效果
4. creeping adjective [only before noun](of sth bad)happening or moving gradually and not easily noticed:creeping inflation over the past few years
5. prod/prɔd; prɑd/v(-dd-) [Tn, Tn.pr, Cn.t]~ sb (into/doing sth)(infml口) (try to) make (a slow or unwilling person) do sth; urge（试图）促使或推动（某人）做某事;激励
6. empirical/ɪmˈpɪrɪkl; ɛmˋpɪrɪkl/adj(of knowledge) based on observationor experiment, not on theory（指知识）以观察或实验为根据的（非理论的）
7. compress1/kəmˈpres; kəmˋprɛs/v[Tn, Tn.pr]~ sth (into sth) 1press sth together; force sth into a small(er) space压紧;将某物压进（较）小的空间;挤压;压缩
8. sweeping/swiːpɪŋ; swipɪŋ/adj having an extremely wideeffect; far reaching有广泛影响的;深远的:sweeping reforms, changes, etc意义深远的改革﹑改变等
9. give sb/sth/get short shrift：怠慢某人、某事物
10. lacuna [ləˈkjuːnə] n.空隙，空白；（原稿中的）脱漏
11. rough-and-tumble[英]['rʌfən'tʌmbl][美][ˌrʌfənˈtʌmbəl] adj.杂乱无章的
12. tussle/ˈtʌsl; ˋtʌsl/n (infml 口) struggle or fight, esp to take sth away from sb 争斗,扭打（尤指为抢走物品）
13. play out phrasal verb MAINLY
14. genre/ˈʒɑːnrə; ˋʒɑnrə/narticular style or kind, esp of works of artor literature grouped according to their form or subject matter种类;类型
15. echo If you echo someone's words,you repeat them or express agreement with their attitude or opinion.
16. damning[ˈdæmɪŋ]adj.定罪的；导致定罪的；强烈反对的
17. critique/krɪˈtiːk/ncritical analysis批评性的分析;评论;评论文章
18. incisive/ɪnˈsaɪsɪv/adjclear and precise; direct or sharp清晰而精确的;直接的;尖锐的: incisive comments, criticism, advice, etc中肯的评论﹑批评﹑劝告等
19. hinges on 依赖；以…为转移
20. domesticate[dəˈmestɪkeɪt]驯养（动物）；使喜欢家庭生活；使喜好家事
21. disprove v [Tn] show that (sth) is wrong or false 证明（某事物）有误或有假
22. lurk/lɜːk; lək/vbe or stay hidden, esp when waiting to attack埋伏;潜伏
背景补充：
1.Thomas Piketty(born 7 May 1971) is a French economist whose work focuses on wealth and income inequality.
Piketty is the author of the best-selling book Capital in the Twenty-First Century(2013),[4]which emphasises the themes of his work on wealth concentrations and distribution over the past 250 years. The book argues that the rate of capital return in developed countries is persistently greater than the rate of economic growth, and that this will cause wealth inequality to increase in the future. To address this problem Piketty proposes redistribution through a progressive global tax on wealth.
2.镀金时代The Gilded Age(c.1876–1914), in the United States, is the term for an era of intense economic development and wealth transfer.Following the generation of the American Civil War and Reconstruction of the South, this period corresponded with the Second Industrial Revolution and the greatest economic,territorial,industrial,and population expansion in American history. The explosion of commerce and heavy industry, supported by mercantilist economic policies and federal railway subsidies, the innovation of new techniques in steel production and the use of electric power, and the continued development of the American West catalyzed dramatic social changes, created a number of immensely wealthy businessmen, sometimes known as "Captains of Industry," or"Robber Barons", and also galvanized the American Labor Movement. The term "Gilded Age" was coined by Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner in their 1873 book,The Gilded Age:A Tale of Today.