Equality matters too much to let it slip away

The monetary and financial turmoil triggered by the Donald Trump administration means there isn’t any higher time to familiarize yourself with even larger points that not solely inform the rise of authoritarian nativists, however may even outlast them.  

To this finish, beneficial studying is a brand new ebook by Thomas Piketty, Equality: What It Means and Why it Issues. Surprisingly, however fortunately, not like his seminal works, Capital within the Twenty-First Century (2014) and Capital and Ideology (2020), which run to greater than 700 and 1,000 pages respectively, his newest is a brief, snappy learn. That is primarily as a result of it’s written as a dialogue with co-author Michael J Sandel, a political thinker and professor of presidency at Harvard College…