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A BRIEF HISTORY OF EQUALITY
Author: Thomas Piketty (Translated by StevenRendall)
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Price: $27.95
Pages: 288
Thomas Piketty begins his latest book by genially mentioning the entreaties he gets to write something short — previous books have been around 1,000 pages long — and ends it by expressing the hope that he has given “citizens,” rather than economists, new weapons in the battle against inequality, which is his master subject. This shouldn’t be taken for a sign that A Brief History of Equality is consciously simplified. It isn’t centred on a new economic finding, like that in Capital in the
Thomas Piketty begins his latest book by genially mentioning the entreaties he gets to write something short — previous books have been around 1,000 pages long — and ends it by expressing the hope that he has given “citizens,” rather than economists, new weapons in the battle against inequality, which is his master subject. This shouldn’t be taken for a sign that A Brief History of Equality is consciously simplified. It isn’t centred on a new economic finding, like that in Capital in the
