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Jun 17, 2022 · An engaged and clearheaded socialist thinker, Piketty sets forth in “A Brief History of Equality” one of the most comprehensive and comprehensible social democratic programs available...
- Gary Gerstle
Aug 26, 2021 · The world's leading economist of inequality presents a short but sweeping and surprisingly optimistic history of human progress toward equality despite crises, disasters, and backsliding. A perfect introduction to the ideas developed in his monumental earlier books.
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Capital in the Twenty-First Century ( French: Le Capital au XXIe siècle) is a book written by French economist Thomas Piketty. It focuses on wealth and income inequality in Europe and the United States since the 18th century.
- Thomas Piketty
- 2013
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Apr 19, 2022 · Turning from the past to the future, Piketty analyzes how climate change has been disproportionately caused by the wealthiest countries while heavily affecting the poorest. How can this be equalized? Even for this seemingly intractable problem, Piketty has solutions.
Here we present nine charts drawn from the book that illustrate the history of the global economy. 1) The fall and rise of Asia 300 years ago, a majority of the world's economic output was...
Capital in the Twenty-First Century. Deirdre Nansen McCloskey1. Thomas Piketty has written a big book, 577 pages of text, 76 pages of notes, 115 charts, tables, and graphs, that has excited the left, worldwide. “Just as we said!” the leftists cry. “The. problem is Capitalism and its inevitable tendency to inequality!” First published in French in.
Apr 19, 2022 · Thomas Piketty documents the economic growth and moral progress humanity has experienced over the past three centuries and draws a new inspiration from this history. Others who emphasize progress succumb to flatfooted views of well-being, technocratic fear of politics, and quietism about justice.
- Thomas Piketty
