Capital and Ideology
by Thomas Piketty
Piketty's thousand-page sequel: how societies justify inequality, from trifunctional orders to hypercapitalism, with proposals. Massive and ambitious.
Read it if…
you finished Capital in the Twenty-First Century and want more.
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Skip it if…
you want a summary; see A Brief History of Equality.
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Three things you will actually use
- Inequality is ideological.
- Regimes change.
- Data over dogma.
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Read the chapters on inequality regimes.
Our verdict
Piketty's sequel.
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