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Capital and Ideology by Thomas Piketty
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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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