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Economic World Building: Income Inequality (Based by Thomas Piketty’s Capital and Ideology)

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Earlier this year I read Thomas Piketty's Capital and Ideology. This video is me taking the learnings I had from that video and applying it to world building for writers. I hope this video is helpful for those of you out there trying to make economically realistic worlds. I would love to hear your thoughts in the comments on any of the books mentioned or on economic world building. Books Mentioned: Capital and Ideology by Thomas Piketty Warbreaker by Brandon Sanderson Red Rising by Pierce Brown Vox by Christina Dalcher

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Earlier this year I read Thomas Piketty's Capital and Ideology. This video is me taking the learnings I had from that video and applying it to world building for writers. I hope this video is helpful for those of you out there trying to make economically realistic worlds.



I would love to hear your thoughts in the comments on any of the books mentioned or on economic world building.



Books Mentioned:



Capital and Ideology by Thomas Piketty

Warbreaker by Brandon Sanderson

Red Rising by Pierce Brown

Vox by Christina Dalcher
Thomas Piketty
Thomas Piketty (7 May 1971) is a French economist who works on wealth and income inequality. He is a professor (directeur d'études) at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS), associate chair at the Paris School of Economics and Centennial professor at the London School of Economics new International Inequalities Institute.

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