Books by Thomas Piketty
Found 5 books
There is Thomas Piketty, Equality is a Struggle: Bulletins from the Front Line, 2021-2025 . Columns in favor of democratic socialism and higher taxes.
Do note he has a new book coming out A Brief History of Equality .
You can pre-order the book here .
The author is Thomas Piketty, and the subtitle is Inequality and Redistribution, 1901-1998 . This is a reprint and translation of the author’s original French work from 2001. It appears to be a very seriously researched volume.
Which is to say that while Cowen’s point about the global picture is both interesting and correct, his political stance is backwards. It’s not fans of Capital in the 21st Century who are pushing nationalism as an alternative to plutocracy, but its detractors. And though the recent politics in the US Congress have been driven by the somewhat odd sequence of events around the arrival of unaccompanied minors from Central America , the underlying pattern runs much deeper than that.
Many of you have been asking me about the forthcoming Thomas Piketty book . I am writing a 2500-word review of it for…elsewhere…so mum’s the word until then. For now I’ll just say it is a book to buy, read, and indeed study. Here is one good piece on the book from The Economist . It’s already a splendid year for the published word.
3. The forthcoming Thomas Piketty book will be very important .