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The engine of equality
ALEX HALL recommends a concise summary of Thomas Piketty’s forensic examination of inequality and how it is produced
A TELLING GRAPH: From Brownlie and DBIS (2012) and Thomas Piketty, Technical Appendices to Capital in the 21st Century (2014)
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CHRISTOPHER POLLARD explains how and why neoliberalism adopted the racist agenda common to the populist right of today
SYLVIA HIKINS recommends a sweeping survey of the world's biggest desert and the people who live there
GUILLERMO THOMAS is persuaded by a scathing critique of the Church of England and its embeddedness in imperialism
MARIA DUARTE and ANGUS REID review Materialists, Unmoored, Together, and Bambi: A Tale of Life in The Woods
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Nature, Culture, and Inequality
Thomas Piketty, Scribe, £12.99
THOMAS PIKETTY is generally known for two mammoth contributions to political economy: Capital in the 21st Century, and Capital and Inequality. As such, his main focus of work has been on inequality, firstly in terms of how capital accumulates above growth and secondly explaining how ideology and policy contributes to inequality. Like an Enlightenment philosopher he works by empirical examination but with huge historical datasets detailing wealth, income and taxes.
Both of these previous books are involved and technical. His more recent work has been addressed to a lay audience and this barely 80-page work with one page of references is a case in point. Buried in the credits is a note that its based on a talk at the Societe d’Ethnologie in 2022. He has a number of key messages to transmit.
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