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Thomas Piketty: ‘You have to make the richest people pay more’ | UpFront

As most indicators continue to show the gap between the rich and the rest getting bigger, renowned author and economist Thomas Piketty’s latest book strikes an optimistic note. In A Brief History of Equality, Piketty argues that the world is broadly on the right track to reducing socioeconomic inequality. "There's a long run of social demand for equality that is inseparable from modernity," he says. “The key to transformation is collective mobilisations through...

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Rethinking protectionism

Should we have boycotted the World Cup in Qatar? Probably not. Since we have always accepted to participate in sports competitions with regimes far removed from social and electoral democracy, starting with China (2008 Olympic Games) and Russia (2018 World Cup), the boycott of Qatar would have been interpreted as a new mark of the hypocrisy of Westerners, always ready to give lessons to a few small countries when it suits them, while continuing to do business with all those who bring them...

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The Piketty Phenomenon, Part II

This is Gerardo Otero's Part II of his exposition of Thomas Piketty's book, Capital in the Twenty-First Century. It presents his elegant formula and explains why capitalism in its neoliberal stage tends to deepen inequality - and what it would take to change that to lessen inequality. A later video will present a critical synthesis of Piketty's 2022 book, A Brief History of Equality, in which he takes a more optimistic perspective than in his earlier book. His main proposal is for a...

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