Bibliograph

Capital and ideology, Thomas Piketty ; translated by Arthur Goldhammer

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Capital and ideology, Thomas Piketty ; translated by Arthur Goldhammer

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Capital and ideology

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

1111377307

Responsibility statement

Thomas Piketty ; translated by Arthur Goldhammer

Summary

Piketty challenges us to revolutionize how we think about politics, ideology, and history. He exposes the ideas that have 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, he observes, is not a natural fact. Markets, profits, and capital are all historical constructs that depend on choices. 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. -- abridged from jacket

Table Of Contents

Part one. Inequality regimes in history ; Ternary societies : trifunctional inequality -- European societies of orders : power and property -- The invention of ownership societies -- Ownership societies : the case of France -- Ownership societies : European trajectoriesPart two. Slave and colonial societies ; Slave societies : extreme inequality -- Colonial societies : diversity and domination -- Ternary societies and colonialism : the case of India -- Ternary societies and colonialism : Eurasian trajectoriesPart three. The great transformation of the twentieth century ; The crisis of ownership societies -- Social-democratic societies : incomplete equality -- Communist and Post-Communist societies -- Hypercapitalism : between modernity and archaismPart four. Rethinking the dimensions of political conflict ; Borders and property : the construction of equality -- Brahmin left : new Euro-american cleavages -- Social nativism : the postcolonial identitarian trap -- Elements for a participatory socialism for the twenty-first century -- ConclusionIntroduction -- Inequality regimes in history -- Slave and colonial societies -- The great transformation of the twentieth century -- Rethinking the dimensions of political conflict -- Conclusion

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