Beyond Piketty

Piketty's Capital, impressive though it is, is mainly a data book I think. It does not really go into the dynamics of by capitalism and empire though financialization is mentioned. We have to look for other analyses, may be like the following which seem to make some sense of the full court press by the USA The Luchadores of Global Political Economy
P.S. The above article is one from a discussion on the book "The Making of Global Capitalism" by Leo Panitch and Sam Gidin at Jacobin