Description: Capital and Ideology, Hardcover by Piketty, Thomas; Goldhammer, Arthur (TRN), ISBN 0674980824, ISBN-13 9780674980822, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US "Thomas Piketty's bestselling Capital in the Twenty-First Century galvanized global debate about inequality. In this audacious follow-up, Piketty challenges us to revolutionize how we think about politics, ideology, and history. He exposes the ideas thathave sustained inequality for the past millennium, reveals why the shallow politics of right and left are failing us today, and outlines the structure of a fairer economic system. Our economy, Piketty observes, is not a natural fact. Markets, profits, and capital are all historical constructs that depend on choices. Piketty explores the material and ideological interactions of conflicting social groups that have given us slavery, serfdom, colonialism, communism, and hypercapitalism, shaping the lives of billions. He concludes that the great driver of human progress over the centuries has been the struggle for equality and education and not, as often argued, the assertion of property rights or the pursuit of stability. The new era of extreme inequality that has derailed that progress since the 1980s, he shows, is partly a reaction against communism, but it is also the fruit of ignorance, intellectual specialization, and our drift toward the dead-end politics of identity. Once we understand this, we can begin to envision a more balanced approach to economics and politics. Piketty argues for a new "participatory" socialism, a system founded on an ideology of equality, social property, education, and the sharing of knowledge and power"--
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Book Title: Capital and Ideology
Number of Pages: 1104 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Item Height: 2 in
Topic: Economic History, Political Ideologies / Communism, Post-Communism & Socialism, Sociology / General, General, Economics / General, Property, Economics / Theory, Economics / Comparative
Publication Year: 2020
Illustrator: Yes
Genre: Law, Political Science, Philosophy, Social Science, Business & Economics
Item Weight: 51.3 Oz
Author: Thomas. Piketty
Item Length: 9.2 in
Item Width: 6.1 in
Format: Hardcover
