A brief history of equality
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Rendall, Steven, translator.
Published
Cambridge, Massachusetts : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2022.
Physical Desc
viii, 274 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Status
Main Level - Nonfiction
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Published
Cambridge, Massachusetts : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2022.
Format
Book
Language
English
Notes
General Note
First published in French as Une bréve histoire de l'égalité, Éditions du Seuil, 2021.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description
The world's leading economist of inequality presents a short but sweeping and surprisingly optimistic history of human progress toward equality despite crises, disasters, and backsliding. A perfect introduction to the ideas developed in his monumental earlier books. It's easy to be pessimistic about inequality. We know it has increased dramatically in many parts of the world over the past two generations. No one has done more to reveal the problem than Thomas Piketty. Now, in this surprising and powerful new work, Piketty reminds us that the grand sweep of history gives us reasons to be optimistic. Over the centuries, he shows, we have been moving toward greater equality. Piketty guides us with elegance and concision through the great movements that have made the modern world for better and worse: the growth of capitalism, revolutions, imperialism, slavery, wars, and the building of the welfare state. It's a history of violence and social struggle, punctuated by regression and disaster. But through it all, Piketty shows, human societies have moved fitfully toward a more just distribution of income and assets, a reduction of racial and gender inequalities, and greater access to health care, education, and the rights of citizenship. Our rough march forward is political and ideological, an endless fight against injustice. To keep moving, Piketty argues, we need to learn and commit to what works, to institutional, legal, social, fiscal, and educational systems that can make equality a lasting reality. At the same time, we need to resist historical amnesia and the temptations of cultural separatism and intellectual compartmentalization. At stake is the quality of life for billions of people. We know we can do better, Piketty concludes. The past shows us how. The future is up to us.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Piketty, T., & Rendall, S. (2022). A brief history of equality . The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Piketty, Thomas, 1971- and Steven, Rendall. 2022. A Brief History of Equality. The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Piketty, Thomas, 1971- and Steven, Rendall. A Brief History of Equality The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2022.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Piketty, Thomas, and Steven Rendall. A Brief History of Equality The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2022.
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