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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 democratic and participatory socialism.
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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 democratic and participatory socialism.
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| 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 democratic and participatory socialism. |