A Brief History of Equality / / Thomas Piketty.
The world’s leading economist of inequality presents a short but sweeping and surprisingly optimistic history of human progress toward equality despite crises, disasters, and backsliding. A perfect introduction to the ideas developed in his monumental earlier books. It’s easy to be pessimistic about...
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Piketty, Thomas, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut A Brief History of Equality / Thomas Piketty. Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2022] ©2022 1 online resource (272 p.) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1. The Movement toward Equality: The First Milestones -- 2. The Slow Deconcentration of Power and Property -- 3. The Heritage of Slavery and Colonialism -- 4. The Question of Reparations -- 5. Revolution, Status, and Class -- 6. The “Great Redistribution”: 1914–1980 -- 7. Democracy, Socialism, and Progressive Taxation -- 8. Real Equality against Discrimination -- 9. Exiting Neocolonialism -- 10. Toward a Democratic, Ecological, and Multicultural Socialism -- Contents in Detail -- Tables and Illustrations -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star The world’s leading economist of inequality presents a short but sweeping and surprisingly optimistic history of human progress toward equality despite crises, disasters, and backsliding. A perfect introduction to the ideas developed in his monumental earlier books. It’s easy to be pessimistic about inequality. We know it has increased dramatically in many parts of the world over the past two generations. No one has done more to reveal the problem than Thomas Piketty. Now, in this surprising and powerful new work, Piketty reminds us that the grand sweep of history gives us reasons to be optimistic. Over the centuries, he shows, we have been moving toward greater equality. Piketty guides us with elegance and concision through the great movements that have made the modern world for better and worse: the growth of capitalism, revolutions, imperialism, slavery, wars, and the building of the welfare state. It’s a history of violence and social struggle, punctuated by regression and disaster. But through it all, Piketty shows, human societies have moved fitfully toward a more just distribution of income and assets, a reduction of racial and gender inequalities, and greater access to health care, education, and the rights of citizenship. Our rough march forward is political and ideological, an endless fight against injustice. To keep moving, Piketty argues, we need to learn and commit to what works, to institutional, legal, social, fiscal, and educational systems that can make equality a lasting reality. At the same time, we need to resist historical amnesia and the temptations of cultural separatism and intellectual compartmentalization. At stake is the quality of life for billions of people. We know we can do better, Piketty concludes. The past shows us how. The future is up to us. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 29. Mai 2023) BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economics / Theory. bisacsh Rendall, Steven, contributor. ctb https://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ctb Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE Business and Economics 2022 English 9783110992823 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2022 English 9783110993899 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2022 9783110994810 ZDB-23-DGG Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE Economics 2022 9783110992922 ZDB-23-DBV Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Harvard University Press Complete eBook-Package 2022 9783110785791 print 9780674273559 https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674275898 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780674275898 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780674275898/original |
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