![]() ![]() ![]() We know we can do better, Piketty concludes. At stake is the quality of life for billions of people. At the same time, we need to resist historical amnesia and the temptations of cultural separatism and intellectual compartmentalization. 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. Our rough march forward is political and ideological, an endless fight against injustice. 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 healthcare, education, and the rights of citizenship. It’s a history of violence and social struggle, punctuated by regression and disaster. ![]() 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. ![]()
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