Thomas Piketty is director of studies at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS) and professor at the Paris School of Economics. He is the author of Capital in the Twenty-First Century and Capital and Ideology.
“What makes this manifesto noteworthy is that it comes from . . .
an economist who gained his reputation as a researcher with vaguely
left-of-center sensibilities but was far from a radical. Yet the
times are such . . . that even honest moderates are driven to
radical remedies.”—Robert Kuttner, New York Times
“The ideas propounded are influential and represent a stream of
thought which has considerable resonance both in Europe and the
UK.”—Bridget Rosewell, Reading Room for the Society of Professional
Economists
“Lively, thought-provoking, grounded in facts, and resolutely
optimistic—these essays grapple with the big questions of our time,
from the rise of Trumpism and Brexit, to gender inequality and
wealth taxation.”—Gabriel Zucman, University of California,
Berkeley
“Thomas Piketty’s personal journey from liberalism to socialism, at
a time when socialism was in retreat, is a mark of the man’s ethos
but also evidence of the soul-crushing inhumanity of our post-2008
hypercapitalism. Reading this volume of collected essays offers
important glimpses to the parallel evolution of our political
economy and of one of its most renowned scholars.”—Yanis
Varoufakis, author of Another Now and leader of MeRA25 in Greece’s
Parliament
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