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    Brief History of Equality

    Thomas Piketty · 2021

    " Les questions économiques sont trop importantes pour être laissées à une petite classe de spécialistes et de dirigeants. La réappropriation citoyenne de ce savoir est une étape essentielle pour transformer les relations de pouvoir. " T. P. En présentant l'évolution en longue durée des inégalités entre classes sociales dans les sociétés humaines, Thomas Piketty propose une perspective nouvelle sur l'histoire de l'égalité. Il s'appuie sur une conviction forte forgée au fil de ses recherches: la marche vers l'égalité est un combat qui vient de loin, et qui ne demande qu'à se poursuivre au xxie siècle, pour peu que l'on s'y mette toutes et tous. Thomas Piketty est directeur d'études à l'EHESS, professeur à l'Ecole d'économie de Paris et codirecteur du Laboratoire sur les inégalités mondiales (World Inequality Lab, WIL). Il est notamment l'auteur du Capital au xxie siècle (2013) et de Capital et Idéologie (2019).

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    1. smallmancontrovAug 2026
      Oliver Twist. If you want a high level economic perspective, try A Brief History of Equality by Piketty.
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    2. whakimSep 2022
      Actually, Piketty doesn't concede this point and makes the extremely important distinction between aggregate wealth and wealth distribution. What Rognlie does point out is the incredible importance of real estate in the growth of capital income - far more than Piketty originally credited it with in Capital in the Twenty-First Century. As Piketty points out in the interview, an explanation based around real estate literally cannot explain the growth in wealth share of the top 1% or top 0.1% or top 0.01%, because the wealthier you are, the smaller a percentage of your wealth consists of real estate. Which then naturally leads to the conclusion that Georgism/land value taxes are an insufficient tool for combating extreme inequality.

      Also, non sequitur: while I enjoyed A Brief History of Equality, I feel that it tried to stuff too much historical detail into so short a work - it reads a bit like a condensed version of Capital and Ideology. I found the most enlightening parts of Piketty's previous works involved the tracing of political and economic minutiae across time and space, and I'm not sure I would have actually enjoyed A Brief History of Equality if I didn't already have that background.

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