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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
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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
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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/ |