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Thomas piketty has 50 books on goodreads with 116989 ratings. Capital and ideology thomas piketty harvard university. Click to share on facebook opens in new window click to share on twitter opens in new window. Piketty was born to militant trotskyite parents and was later politically affiliated with the french socialist party. Its a serious economics book that takes a long, hard look at the dynamics affecting the distribution of capital, the concentration of wealth, and the longterm evolution of inequality in advanced economies. Capital in the twentyfirst century ladislau dowbor. In this audacious followup, he challenges us to revolutionize how we think about ideology and history, exposing the ideas that have sustained inequality since premodern times and outlining a fairer economic system. Economic inequality is not new, but it is getting worse, with radical possible.
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