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A Brief History of Equality

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A Brief History of Equality
9.99 €
The world's leading economist and expert on inequality presents a brief and surprisingly optimistic history of the human quest for equality despite crises and disasters. It's easy to succumb to pessimism when you hear about inequality every day. But in his new book, Tom Piketty reminds humanity that the great sweep of history gives us reason for optimism. Piketty elegantly and succinctly analyzes the great ideas that have defined the modern world and colored it with shades of "bad" and "good": the rise of capitalism, revolutions, imperialism, slavery, wars, and the building of the welfare state. The history of equality is a history of violence and social struggle, interspersed with regressions and catastrophes. But despite all this, as Piketty shows, human societies have moved steadily toward more equitable distributions of income and assets, reduced racial and gender inequality, and greater access to health care, education, and civil rights. This book is both an excellent introduction to the groundbreaking ideas developed in Tom Piketty's monumental book Capital in the Twenty-First Century and an incredibly valuable independent study.
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