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IHSS Annual Symposium: Capital and Ideology with Thomas Piketty, Heather Boushey and Martin Sandbu

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The Queen Mary Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences (IHSS) Annual Symposium seeks to recognise and bring to Queen Mary University of London each year a scholar who has recently contributed a ground-breaking piece of work in the humanities and social sciences. The inaugural IHSS Annual Symposium was given by bestselling author and economist, ...

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The Queen Mary Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences (IHSS) Annual Symposium seeks to recognise and bring to Queen Mary University of London each year a scholar who has recently contributed a ground-breaking piece of work in the humanities and social sciences. The inaugural IHSS Annual Symposium was given by bestselling author and economist, Professor Thomas Piketty on Thursday 2 July 2020.



Professor Thomas Piketty discussed his 2020 release, ‘Capital and Ideology’, during this online event. ‘Capital and Ideology’ is the follow-up to Piketty’s bestselling ‘Capital in the Twenty-First Century’ (2014), which was influential in changing the way politics, ideology and history are thought about. Responses were made by Heather Boushey (President and CEO of the Washington Center for Equitable Growth and author of ‘Unbound: How Inequality Constricts our Economy and What We Can Do about It’ (2019)) and Martin Sandbu (European Economics Editor for the Financial Times and author of the forthcoming ‘The Economics of Belonging’ (2020)).



Talk by Thomas Piketty – 6:44


Response by Heather Boushey – 45:20


Response by Martin Sandbu – 1:05:24


Discussion and questions – 1:25:06



For more information about the IHSS, visit https://www.qmul.ac.uk/ihss/



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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