Thomas Piketty
Capital and Ideology
Belknap Press, 2020
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According to economist Thomas Piketty, all regimes try to legitimize inequality through ideology.
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In this thought-provoking sequel to his bestselling Capital in the Twenty-First Century, economist Thomas Piketty expands his focus on inequality to the prodigious “political-ideological repertoire” that constitutes the economic narratives of major nations. This description helps explain the book’s length of more than 1,000 pages, but even the more ponderous sections of Piketty’s tome reward the reader with refreshing and singular slants on history and ideology. Echoing the truism that change is the only inevitability, Piketty calls for more circumspection and greater discussion of the wider causes and remedies of inequality.
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About the Author
Thomas Piketty, a professor at the Paris School of Economics, is the author of the best-selling Capital in the Twenty-First Century.
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I haven't read this book yet (it sits on my shelf waiting), but after reading his previous book 'Capital in the 21st Century', I can't believe that Piketty would just pull things out of the air as his first book is all about data, going back decades and even centuries. I am sure a summary might not be able to do justice to an economist whose works pivots on solid data.