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Capital and ideology / Thomas Piketty ; translated by Arthur Goldhammer.

by Piketty, Thomas, 1971-

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Harvard University Press, 2020.

Ideology -- Economic aspects.

Economics -- Political aspects.

9780674980822 (hc.)

Capital et idéologie. English

Alternate title:

Capital & ideology

ix, 1093 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.

"First published in French as Capital et idéologie, Éditions du Seuil, Paris, 2019"--T. p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

In Capital and Ideology, Thomas Piketty challenges us to revolutionize how we think about politics, ideology, and history. He exposes the ideas that have sustained inequality for the past millennium, reveals why the shallow politics of right and left are failing us today, and outlines the structure of a fairer economic system. Piketty explores the material and ideological interactions of conflicting social groups that have given us slavery, serfdom, colonialism, communism, and hypercapitalism, shaping the lives of billions. He concludes that the great driver of human progress over the centuries has been the struggle for equality and education and not, as often argued, the assertion of property rights or the pursuit of stability. The new era of extreme inequality that has derailed that progress since the 1980s, he shows, is partly a reaction against communism, but it is also the fruit of ignorance, intellectual specialization, and our drift toward the dead-end politics of identity. Once we understand this, we can begin to envision a more balanced approach to economics and politics

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