Dispatches from a World on Fire, 2016-2021
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Köp båda 2 för 558 krWhat 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 optimisticthese 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 Pikettys personal journey from liberalism to socialism, at a time when socialism was in retreat, is a mark of the mans 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 Greeces Parliament
Thomas Piketty is director of studies at the cole des hautes tudes 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.