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Capital and Ideology by Thomas Piketty
Regulation, not revolution, is Thomas Pikkety's answer to capitalism's ever-growing embrace of economic inequality
RITA DI SANTO contemplates two films about journalism that opened this year’s festival
GEOFF BOTTOMS applauds a world-class production King Lear that pits late feudalism against a rising bourgeoisie
MARY CONWAY keeps up with the sheer pace of a drama about the terrible gap between sanitised reporting and real-life turmoil of race and gender
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PAUL DONOVAN welcomes a revival of Reginald Rose’s classic play that reminds us of the fundamental need for trials with juries
CAPITAL and Ideology is Thomas Piketty’s follow-up to Capital in the Twenty-First Century, in which he expressed his concerns about income and wealth inequality.
The French economist’s intent here is “to present a reasoned history of inequality regimes” and, while he recognises that this search is not exempt from hypocrisy on the part of dominant groups, “every ideology contains plausible and sincere elements from which we can derive useful lessons.”
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