Uncover the Interplay of Wealth and Power in Thomas Piketty's Capital and Ideology

hrs: 改めてその内容の深さに感動しますが、約1,000ページの大作を読むのは大変な覚悟と気力が必要です！知のアルプスの直碧をいきなり登るような感じです。

Japan on Aug 19, 2023

Amazonian: Rich perspectives on inequality. And excellent read.

Germany on Jul 27, 2023

Amazon Customer: Need extra knowledge, need to try this book. Once your into this, you wont stop.

Australia on Jul 22, 2023

TEFL Teacher: A fascinating read, should be required reading for all politicians.
In depth yet accessible to the general reader, with many illustrative graphs and clear interpretations of each one. You do not need to be an economist to read this.
The section on constructive reform of EU institutions was a particular highlight for me.

United Kingdom on Nov 16, 2022

Gregory Alan Wingo: Piketty has done it again! But in a very different way. The first book in this series, "Capital in the Twentieth Century" was fascinating as both an economics book but also its utilization of literature to dissect the nature of capital accumulation upon the lives of human beings. This book relies chiefly on long-term data analysis of the world's experiment with Capitalism. It is full of useful charts on income, wealthy, education, and voting patterns across the world and history.

But it is much more than that. It is an empirical defense of Regulation Theory which makes it both an economic and historical work. Regulation Theory was a creation of both French economists and the Annales School of French historians. These individuals abandoned predictive pretensions and grand theory for historical analysis of people, government, laws, and markets. Conclusions are based on statistical analysis of historical records instead of economic modeling. Piketty has chosen to not utilize tradition common or academic names for concepts throughout the work in order to avoid knee-jerk reactions from readers in advance of his arguments and evidence. So let me explain certain aspects that will...

United States on Aug 15, 2020

Matt L. Pimentel, Ph.D.: Dr. Thomas Piketty’s (2019/2020)“Capital & Ideology,” 1093 pp., published through Harvard University Press is heroically thorough and extremely factually based with copious footnotes and with extensive on-line forums. (http://piketty.pse.ens.fr/fr/ideology and https://wid.world/. Piketty entertained us once before with “Capital in the 21st Century (2013).” The books main thrust was that a global capital gains tax and a few other tinkerings divulged in its 816 pages focused on mostly Western democracies, would severely help with global inequalities. His current opus is enormous in scope and provides descriptions of over 500 years’ worth of written history that includes Western democracies, and most notably, histories of Indian, Chinese, Japanese, and Brazilian economies. The purpose of his book is complex and at times redundant. His final chapter which focuses on what to “do” about our current situation is what he calls a “participatory socialism,” This tenant states that a circulation of funds vis-à-vis the USA and the world. To the say that is it far left pipe-dream economically would be the understatement of the century. Though the book seems a bit...

United States on Jul 18, 2020

Ugo: Il libro presenta un excursus storico sull'origine delle diseguaglianze sociali ed economiche del nostro tempo. In particolare , si sofferma sulla creazione di "ideologie" che nei vari periodi storici sono state elaborate per giustificare la presenza di tali diseguaglianza, anche quando esse erano (ed in certi casi, sono diventate) estreme. Nella seconda parte, discute possibili metodi per mitigare il crescente livello di diseguaglianza economica del nostro tempo.
Libro affascinante per ampiezza di visione storica ed economica. Assolutamente da leggere per acquisire consapevolezza su uno dei problemi sociali del nostro tempo!

Italy on Jun 14, 2020