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Oxfam Inequality Report, Piketty & New India || Midweek Matters 43 || Parakala Prabhakar

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#inequality #NewIndia #Modi Dr Parakala speaks about Thomas Piketty's absorbing book, Capital and Ideology and the recently released Oxfam's report, Inequality Kills which has an India supplement also. He suggests that we all engage with these two works, challenge them. And, even if we do not agree with them, we should allow ourselves to be troubled by both them. He points out that New India is not troubled by inequality. It also tolerates it and justifies it. And it added social and cultural inequality to the existing economic equality. For Other Episodes : https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLWr0jaUfgx7uUanNKZvnrCdMsJWBoDbBz #ParakalaPrabhakar #Parakala #Midweek #MidweekMatters

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Dr Parakala speaks about Thomas Piketty's absorbing book, Capital and Ideology and the recently released Oxfam's report, Inequality Kills which has an India supplement also. He suggests that we all engage with these two works, challenge them. And, even if we do not agree with them, we should allow ourselves to be troubled by both them. He points out that New India is not troubled by inequality. It also tolerates it and justifies it. And it added social and cultural inequality to the existing economic equality.



For Other Episodes :

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLWr0jaUfgx7uUanNKZvnrCdMsJWBoDbBz



#ParakalaPrabhakar #Parakala #Midweek #MidweekMatters
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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