Merciful in its brevity, although no less intellectually rigorous. Designed to be read by politically-minded citizens, not just economists, it distills the key concepts from Piketty's previous three books...Piketty's overview of 20th-century history and politics has given us a blueprint for achievable political transformation and reason to hope that progress is possible.--Eleni Vlahiotis "PopMatters" (7/28/2022 12:00:00 AM)Surprisingly optimistic...Building on his previous works and drawing on the sweeping historical record, Piketty brings his larger argument about the origins of inequality and the political, social, and institutional contexts of its evolution into sharp relief.--Era Dabla-Norris "Finance & Development" (9/1/2022 12:00:00 AM)A sustained argument for why we should be optimistic about human progress...An engaged and clearheaded socialist thinker, Piketty sets forth...one of the most comprehensive and comprehensible social democratic programs available anywhere...He has laid out a plan that is smart, thoughtful, and motivated by admirable political convictions.--Gary Gerstle "Washington Post" (6/17/2022 12:00:00 AM)A nice distillation of the 'rockstar' economist's ideas and a good entry point for the uninitiated...[Piketty] points out that an unequal concentration of wealth is bad for growth and corrosive to democracy, precisely because it limits social mobility and prevents people from accessing key institutions...If the politics of Europe and America during the last decade have taught us anything, it is that the failure to address inequality is highly corrosive to the social contract. It fosters distrust and resentment, and makes people vulnerable to demagogy, populism, xenophobia, and reactionary politics of all kinds.--Jared Marcel Pollen "Quillette" (4/28/2022 12:00:00 AM)Piketty is now attempting to revive an egalitarian political project that he traces all the way back to the Enlightenment, but which has stalled since 1980. In A Brief History of Equality he lays out a program of democratic socialist reforms--to taxation, property rights, corporate governance, international regulation and much else--that would invert recent trends.--William Davies "London Review of Books" (6/8/2022 12:00:00 AM)Peak Piketty...He possesses the rarest of abilities to analyze staggering quantities of information and offer original insights into the structures that underpin our economies...At a time when the concept of objective truth is under assault and when the nuance of argument can be drowned out by the shouting of slogans, there is something glorious about the scale of the work of Thomas Piketty. His arguments are vast in their detail, ever ambitious and always hopeful. This elegant and (by his standards) short book will allow any reader to understand the glory.--Paschal Donohoe "Irish Times" (4/23/2022 12:00:00 AM)An analysis that might just provide a fresh opportunity for social hope...Piketty has undeniably identified clues about how to achieve a more egalitarian world.--Richard Horton "The Lancet" (4/23/2022 12:00:00 AM)An opportunity for readers to see Piketty bring his larger argument about the origins of inequality and his program for fighting it into high relief.--Nicholas Lemann "New York Times" (4/20/2022 12:00:00 AM)A Brief History of Equality is a route into Piketty's arguments in his earlier books, with their luxuriantly extensive data and historical detail. Anybody who has not been able to face those tomes...should read this one.--Diane Coyle "Financial Times" (4/12/2022 12:00:00 AM)[Piketty] argues that we're on a trajectory of greater, not less, equality and lays out his prescriptions for remedying our current corrosive wealth disparities.--David Marchese "New York Times Magazine" (4/1/2022 12:00:00 AM)An activist's history, part reckoning with the past and part manifesto for the future, designed to bolster the courage of those who would continue the forward march. It is an admirable undertaki
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- Autor: Piketty, Professor Thomas
