![]() ![]() However, there is no determinism: a bifurcation is possible, if the right political and ideological mobilization is there. The central message of Picketty is that behind every inequality is a system of justification that ensures its perpetuation. Inequalities are never “natural”: any regime justifies them by an ideology and builds them by laws, taxation, organization of property, education system… The system of inequality that prevails in a given country is first of all the result of political and ideological choices ![]() Key insight #1 : Inequalities are never “natural” ![]() The book is somewhat an updated and enriched version of Picketty’s great success, Capital in the Twenty-First Century (2013), which focused on wealth and income inequality only in Europe and the United States.Īfter exploring historical and contemporary justifications for inequality, Piketty outlines, in his new book, potential means of redistributing wealth. French economist Thomas Piketty published Capital and Ideology in French (September 2019) and then in English (March 2020). ![]()
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