A Brief History of Equality

In his book "Capital in the Twenty-First Century," Thomas Piketty provides a history of human progress toward equality despite crises, disasters, and backsliding. He argues that human societies have moved fitfully toward a more just distribution of income and assets, a reduction of racial and gender inequalities, and greater access to health care, education, and the rights of citizenship. Piketty concludes that the future is up to us and that we can do better.

Format: Hardback
Length: 288 pages
Publication date: 19 April 2022
Publisher: Harvard University Press

"Thomas Piketty's new book, "Capital in the Twenty-First Century," is a sweeping and surprisingly optimistic history of human progress toward equality despite crises, disasters, and backsliding. The world's leading economist of inequality presents a short but comprehensive and surprisingly optimistic history of human progress toward equality despite crises, disasters, and backsliding. Piketty guides us with elegance and concision through the great movements that have shaped the modern world, from the growth of capitalism to revolutions, imperialism, slavery, wars, and the building of the welfare state. It is a history of violence and social struggle, punctuated by regression and disaster. However, Piketty shows that human societies have moved fitfully towards a more just distribution of income and assets, a reduction of racial and gender inequalities, and greater access to health care, education, and citizenship rights. Our rough march forward is political and ideological, an endless fight against injustice. To keep moving, Piketty argues, we need to learn and commit to what works, to institutional, legal, social, fiscal, and educational systems that can make equality a lasting reality."

Thomas Piketty's new book, "Capital in the Twenty-First Century," is a sweeping and surprisingly optimistic history of human progress toward equality despite crises, disasters, and backsliding. The world's leading economist of inequality presents a short but comprehensive and surprisingly optimistic history of human progress toward equality despite crises, disasters, and backsliding. Piketty guides. guides us with elegance and concision through the great movements that have shaped the modern world, from the growth of capitalism to revolutions, imperialism, slavery, wars, and the building of the welfare state. It is a history of violence and social struggle, punctuated by regression and disaster. However, Piketty shows that human societies. societies have moved fitfully towards a more just distribution of income and assets, a reduction of racial and gender inequalities, and greater access to health care, education, and citizenship rights. Our rough march forward is political and ideological, an endless fight against injustice. To keep moving, Piketty argues, we need to learn and commit to what works, to institutional, legal, social, fiscal, and educational systems that can make equality a lasting reality.

Weight: 422g
Dimension: 146 x 223 x 30 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780674273559