Thomas Piketty, "A Brief History of Equality"

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Thomas Piketty (EHESS/ Paris School of Economics) presents his latest book, A BRIEF HISTORY OF EQUALITY This talk was given on September 20, 2022 and was part of the Fall 2022 Economics Seminars Series presented by the Economics Department at The New School of Social Research. ** In his latest book, Piketty guides us with elegance and concision through the great movements that have made the modern world for better and worse: the growth of capitalism, revolutions, imperialism, slavery, wars, and the building of the welfare state. It’s a history of violence and social struggle, punctuated by regression and disaster. But through it all, Piketty shows, human societies have moved fitfully toward a more just distribution of income and assets, a reduction of racial and gender inequalities, and

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