Capital and ideology

"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 p...

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Main Author: Piketty, Thomas, 1971- (Author)
Other Authors: Goldhammer, Arthur (Translator)
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
French
Published: Cambridge, Massachusetts : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2020.
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Table of Contents:
  • Part one. Inequality regimes in history ; Ternary societies : trifunctional inequality
  • European societies of orders : power and property
  • The invention of ownership societies
  • Ownership societies : the case of France
  • Ownership societies : European trajectories.
  • Part two. Slave and colonial societies ; Slave societies : extreme inequality
  • Colonial societies : diversity and domination
  • Ternary societies and colonialism : the case of India
  • Ternary societies and colonialism : Eurasian trajectories.
  • Part three. The great transformation of the twentieth century ; The crisis of ownership societies
  • Social-democratic societies : incomplete equality
  • Communist and Post-Communist societies
  • Hypercapitalism : between modernity and archaism.
  • Part four. Rethinking the dimensions of political conflict ; Borders and property : the construction of equality
  • Brahmin left : new Euro-american cleavages
  • Social nativism : the postcolonial identitarian trap
  • Elements for a participatory socialism for the twenty-first century
  • Conclusion.
  • Introduction
  • Inequality regimes in history
  • Slave and colonial societies
  • The great transformation of the twentieth century
  • Rethinking the dimensions of political conflict
  • Conclusion.