Research Catalog

Title

Capital and ideology / Thomas Piketty ; translated by Arthur Goldhammer.

Author

Piketty, Thomas, 1971-

Publication

• Cambridge, Massachusetts : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2020.
• ©2020

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Details

Additional Authors

Goldhammer, Arthur

Description

ix, 1,093 pages : illustrations; 25 cm

Summary

• "Thomas Piketty's bestselling Capital in the Twenty-First Century galvanized global debate about inequality. In this audacious follow-up, Piketty challenges us to revolutionize how we think about politics, ideology, and history. He exposes the ideas that have sustained inequality for the past millennium, reveals why the shallow politics of right and left are failing us today, and outlines the structure of a fairer economic system. Our economy, Piketty observes, is not a natural fact. Markets, profits, and capital are all historical constructs that depend on choices. Piketty explores the material and ideological interactions of conflicting social groups that have given us slavery, serfdom, colonialism, communism, and hypercapitalism, shaping the lives of billions. He concludes that the great driver of human progress over the centuries has been the struggle for equality and education and not, as often argued, the assertion of property rights or the pursuit of stability. The new era of extreme inequality that has derailed that progress since the 1980s, he shows, is partly a reaction against communism, but it is also the fruit of ignorance, intellectual specialization, and our drift toward the dead-end politics of identity. Once we understand this, we can begin to envision a more balanced approach to economics and politics. Piketty argues for a new "participatory" socialism, a system founded on an ideology of equality, social property, education, and the sharing of knowledge and power"--
• Piketty challenges us to revolutionize how we think about politics, ideology, and history. He exposes the ideas that have sustained inequality for the past millennium, reveals why the shallow politics of right and left are failing us today, and outlines the structure of a fairer economic system. Our economy, he observes, is not a natural fact. Markets, profits, and capital are all historical constructs that depend on choices. The great driver of human progress over the centuries has been the struggle for equality and education and not, as often argued, the assertion of property rights or the pursuit of stability. -- abridged from jacket

Uniform Title

Capital et idéologie. English

Alternative Title

Capital et idéologie.

Subjects

• Socialism
• Economics > Political aspects
• BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economics / Comparative
• BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economic History
• Social change
• Property
• BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Development / Economic Development
• Ideology > Economic aspects
• Equality

Note

• "First published in French as Capital et idéologie, Éditions du Seuil, Paris, 2019"--Title page verso.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• Part one. Inequality regimes in history ; Ternary societies : trifunctional inequality -- European societies of orders : power and property -- The invention of ownership societies -- Ownership societies : the case of France -- Ownership societies : European trajectories.
• Part two. Slave and colonial societies ; Slave societies : extreme inequality -- Colonial societies : diversity and domination -- Ternary societies and colonialism : the case of India -- Ternary societies and colonialism : Eurasian trajectories.
• Part three. The great transformation of the twentieth century ; The crisis of ownership societies -- Social-democratic societies : incomplete equality -- Communist and Post-Communist societies -- Hypercapitalism : between modernity and archaism.
• Part four. Rethinking the dimensions of political conflict ; Borders and property : the construction of equality -- Brahmin left : new Euro-american cleavages -- Social nativism : the postcolonial identitarian trap -- Elements for a participatory socialism for the twenty-first century -- Conclusion.
• Introduction -- Inequality regimes in history -- Slave and colonial societies -- The great transformation of the twentieth century -- Rethinking the dimensions of political conflict -- Conclusion.

Call Number

JFE 20-5026

ISBN

• 9780674980822
• 0674980824
• 9780674245082 (canceled/invalid)
• 9780674245099 (canceled/invalid)
• 9780674245075 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

2019040839

OCLC

1111377307

Author

Piketty, Thomas, 1971- author.

Title

Capital and ideology / Thomas Piketty ; translated by Arthur Goldhammer.

Publisher

Cambridge, Massachusetts : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2020.

Copyright Date

©2020

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Goldhammer, Arthur, translator.

Other Form:

Online version: Piketty, Thomas, 1971- Capital and ideology Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2020. 9780674245082 (DLC) 2019040840

Research Call Number

JFE 20-5026