Review of Capital in the Twenty-First Century by Thomas Piketty
| Autor: | Jean-Claude Delaunay |
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| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
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Inequality
media_common.quotation_subject 05 social sciences Twenty-First Century Neoclassical economics Capitalism Global statistics 0506 political science Power (social and political) Globalization Market economy Capital (economics) 0502 economics and business 050602 political science & public administration Economics Social inequality 050207 economics media_common |
| Zdroj: | International Critical Thought. 7:109-119 |
| ISSN: | 2159-8312 2159-8282 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/21598282.2017.1288363 |
| Popis: | The importance of Piketty’s book is due to its “social-democrat reformist” inspiration. People all around the world know that capitalism is not working well and that it is now facing catastrophe. But they do not yet have the will to change it. This is exactly the core of Piketty’s book. On the one hand, he criticizes the social inequalities of capitalism. He stresses the fact that with capitalist globalization, inequalities and the power of capital are growing. He presents a massive quantity of global statistics to prove this. On the other hand, he is still in favor of capitalism and he thinks that capitalist globalization is the future of societies. He doesn’t say a word about the capitalist structure, based on basic inequalities between capitalists and workers. His proposals to counterbalance capitalist inequalities are therefore chimerical. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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