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99/100Author:
Thomas Piketty, Steven Rendall
Publisher:
Belknap Press: An Imprint of Harvard University Press
Date:
April 19, 2022
Thomas Piketty reminds us that rising inequality is not inevitable. Over the centuries, we have been moving toward greater equality. Piketty guides us through the great movements that have made the modern world and shows how we can learn from them to make equality a lasting reality.
What The Reviewers Say
It’s useful as 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.
Stripped of its academic aura, A Brief History of Equality is pure Bernie Sanders or AOC...In truth, Mr. Piketty may even be to their left.
That underlying pessimism is also present in this new book.
... neatly summarizes the findings of his two original volumes in a 'mere' 250 pages of text. Readers will find this work attractive for its brevity alone. But A Brief History of Equality is also a very different kind of book from the first two.
