![]() It arrives just as anger about inequality (some of it generated by Piketty’s work) approaches boiling point, and was channelled by a contender for the White House, Bernie Sanders.Ĭapital and Ideology builds on Piketty’s long-standing argument that inequality has soared across the world since 1980. The book is nothing less than a global history of inequality and the stories that societies tell to justify it, from pre-modern India to Donald Trump’s US. But his latest, the even thicker Capital and Ideology, may prove still more influential. Piketty’s 753-page book Capital in the Twenty-First Century, published in 2013, sold 2.5 million copies worldwide and helped put inequality on the global agenda. ![]() Dozens of disappointed fans filled the pavement outside. ![]() ![]() Just to be sure, I arrived ten minutes early to get a good seat – only to find every one taken. It didn’t sound like the hottest ticket in Paris: a debate on the theme of “property” between two of the city’s economists, Frédéric Lordon and Thomas Piketty, on a January night in a dingy hall at the Bourse du Travail, the old Labour Exchange. ![]()
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