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A nice little primer which has finally been translated from the French on the back of the stunning success of Capital in the Twenty-First Century . The thesis of the book is actually very simple. Having established that there is, and always has been, a need for an ongoing transfer of capital from the Leggi tutto

Interesting. It was very technical though. If you don't have a basic grasp of economic concepts don't bother reading this.

Dry. Unemployment is a misleading statistic due to the way it is defined (people actively looking for work). It thus excludes the entire prison population (which is about 1% of labour force in the US). It also does not account for those who would enter the labour market if a suitable job presented its Leggi tutto

Trudna, pełna liczb i tabel. Zdecydowanie nie dla laików. Pełna szczegółów i solidna. Tabele słabo się formatują na czytniku, zatem zapewne lepiej czytać na papierze.

This is a short book by Piketty that provides the basic arguments about inequality behind his "Capital in the 21st Century". It is not the full argument and lacks the huge data presentations in the larger work - or some of the later arguments. This is actually good for those trying to follow what Pi Leggi tutto

Too short to contain any information of value but too technical to be anything of a good read, this is the kind of book that's meant to be assigned to and read in class. There is no narrative through line: it's just 120 pages of 'here's a new concept' TLDR: tax the rich

This is a fairly technical book that may be best appreciated by those with a background in economics, although the determined layperson may also be rewarded with interesting insights the author has gleaned from masses of economic data, tracing the evolution of economic inequality in the West from th Leggi tutto

A good clear and concise book that lays the groundwork for understanding the deficiencies of the capitalist system that leads to inequality. Along the way this book explores technology, education, discrimination and politics at a surface level and how the contribute to inequality. Although it provide Leggi tutto

In this short, yet wide-ranging and dense book, Thomas Piketty sets himself to offer a concise summary of the themes that have shaped his research program, and later reappear in his magnum opus, Capital in the 21st Century . He divides the book into three distinct sections. In the first one, he looks Leggi tutto