Capital and ideology (Record no. 9369)

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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9780674980822
082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number 305PIK
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Personal name Piketty, Thomas.
245 #0 - TITLE STATEMENT
Title Capital and ideology
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Place of publication, distribution, etc. Cambridge
Name of publisher, distributor, etc. Harvard University Press
Date of publication, distribution, etc. 2020
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent ix,1065p.
500 ## - GENERAL NOTE
General note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Summary, etc. Thomas Piketty's bestselling Capital in the Twenty-First Century galvanized global debate about inequality. In this audacious follow-up, Piketty challenges us to revolutionize how we think about politics, ideology, and history. He exposes the ideas that have sustained inequality for the past millennium, reveals why the shallow politics of right and left are failing us today, and outlines the structure of a fairer economic system. Our economy, Piketty observes, is not a natural fact. Markets, profits, and capital are all historical constructs that depend on choices. Piketty explores the material and ideological interactions of conflicting social groups that have given us slavery, serfdom, colonialism, communism, and hypercapitalism, shaping the lives of billions. He concludes that the great driver of human progress over the centuries has been the struggle for equality and education and not, as often argued, the assertion of property rights or the pursuit of stability. The new era of extreme inequality that has derailed that progress since the 1980s, he shows, is partly a reaction against communism, but it is also the fruit of ignorance, intellectual specialization, and our drift toward the dead-end politics of identity. Once we understand this, we can begin to envision a more balanced approach to economics and politics. Piketty argues for a new "participatory" socialism, a system founded on an ideology of equality, social property, education, and the sharing of knowledge and power
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Topical term or geographic name entry element Equality.
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