Ron's rages are sincere and — according to his wife — healthily cathartic. But can these splenetic outbursts loosen the grip of capitalism at its most monstrous?
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.”
The future does not have to be climate chaos and social breakdown. MARC VANDEPITTE looks at the alternatives offered by the Global Justice Report, co-authored by Thomas Piketty
The social base of the old Tory Party has disappeared as surely as that of Labour, argues ANDREW MURRAY – today’s right are the debased offspring of a capitalism that speculates without investing and profits without producing
MARTIN GRAHAM welcomes, with reservations, a scholarly addition to the unfinished business of understanding how capital works on a world scale
Paul MacGee of Manifesto Press invites you to a special launch on Saturday August 2.


