The bard celebrates two other fine practitioners of the art, and laments a lost brewer
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The engine of equality
ALEX HALL recommends a concise summary of Thomas Piketty’s forensic examination of inequality and how it is produced
A TELLING GRAPH: From Brownlie and DBIS (2012) and Thomas Piketty, Technical Appendices to Capital in the 21st Century (2014)
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This right-wing conspiracy theory is used to justify the coercive measures against gender, race and labour rights that best serve capitalism, attests GAVIN O’TOOLE
KENNY MONROSE recommends a new exhibition that highlights the significance of Black British music
ANGUS REID is bowled over by an exuberant film about the making of Keith Jarrett’s legendary concert
MARIA DUARTE, FIONA O’CONNOR and ANDY HEDGECOCK review Savage House, Enzo, Madfabulous, and Erupcja
CHRIS SEARLE recommends a work of love and deep admiration for a great musician
Nature, Culture, and Inequality
Thomas Piketty, Scribe, £12.99
THOMAS PIKETTY is generally known for two mammoth contributions to political economy: Capital in the 21st Century, and Capital and Inequality. As such, his main focus of work has been on inequality, firstly in terms of how capital accumulates above growth and secondly explaining how ideology and policy contributes to inequality. Like an Enlightenment philosopher he works by empirical examination but with huge historical datasets detailing wealth, income and taxes.
Both of these previous books are involved and technical. His more recent work has been addressed to a lay audience and this barely 80-page work with one page of references is a case in point. Buried in the credits is a note that its based on a talk at the Societe d’Ethnologie in 2022. He has a number of key messages to transmit.
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