The Financial Hazards of Being a Fugitive

â??Capital in the Twenty-First Century,â? Thomas Pikettyâ??s new book, has received a great deal of attention. But we shouldnâ??t neglect another important new book on income inequality, from a much different perspective. Titled â??On the Run: Fugitive Life in an American City,â? and written by Alice Goffman, a sociologist at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, it offers a fascinating and disturbing portrait of the economic constraints and incentives faced by a large subset of Americans: those who are hiding from the law.