BOOK REVIEW: Can we tax capitalism out of existence?
In his ambitious follow-up book, Thomas Piketty reveals why a ‘left vs right’ political dynamic is failing us
10 March 2020 - 05:00
Thomas Piketty’s 1,000-page Capital and Ideology (Harvard University Press) lands with a hefty thud on bookshelves next week.
Its predecessor, Capital in the Twenty-First Century, galvanised global debate on inequality upon publication in 2014 and was hailed as one of the most important books of the decade, a work that revolutionised our thinking of economic history since the early 1800s...
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