...Like Capital, it discusses the evolution of income and #wealth #inequality over history. But it emphasises historical contingency and, most of all, the role of politics and of collective mobilisation... #Piketty rejects the thesis that very large inequalities are the inevitable outcome of a well-functioning market economy...
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2024/sep/18/nature-culture-and-inequality-by-thomas-piketty-review-mind-the-gap
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