A Brief History of Equality /

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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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE Business and Economics 2022 English
VerfasserIn:
Piketty, Thomas,
MitwirkendeR:
Rendall, Steven,
Place / Publishing House:Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2022]
©2022
Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (272 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • 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

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