A Brief History of Equality
By: Thomas Piketty
4.00
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
The world's leading economist of inequality presents a short but sweeping and surprisingly optimist…
Want to Read $ 9.48"The idea that each country–or worse yet–each person in each country is individually responsible for its production and its wealth, makes little sense from a historical point of view. All wealth is collective in origin."-Thomas Piketty, A Brief History of Equality
"The idea that each country–or worse yet–each person in each country is individually responsible for its production and its wealth, makes little sense from a historical point of view. All wealth is collective in origin."-Thomas Piketty, A Brief History of Equality
"The growth of wealth in the Western world, like that in Japan or China, has long been based on the international division of labor and the feverish exploitation of natural and human resources worldwide. All these accumulations of wealth that have taken place on our planet depend on a global economic system, and it is at that level that the question of justice should be raised and the march toward equality pursued."-Thomas Piketty, A Brief History of Equality
"The growth of wealth in the Western world, like that in Japan or China, has long been based on the international division of labor and the feverish exploitation of natural and human resources worldwide. All these accumulations of wealth that have taken place on our planet depend on a global economic system, and it is at that level that the question of justice should be raised and the march toward equality pursued."-Thomas Piketty, A Brief History of Equality
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2. The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
By: David Graeber
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"Humans - from this other perspective, which is just as extreme in its own way - are at best an arbitrary constellation of cultural elements, perhaps assembled according to some prevailing spirit, cod…"-David Graeber, The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
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"In the Middle Ages, most people in other parts of the world who actually knew anything about northern Europe at all considered it an obscure and uninviting backwater full of religious fanatics who, a…"-David Graeber, The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
3. Mission Economy: A Moonshot Guide to Changing Capitalism
By: Mariana Mazzucato
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The extraordinary efforts that took mankind to the moon 50 years ago were more than a scientific fe… read more
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"[A mission-oriented economy] means asking what kind of markets we want, rather than what problem in the market needs to be fixed."-Mariana Mazzucato, Mission Economy: A Moonshot Guide to Changing Capitalism
"The ideas in this book have been inspired by many. But it is probably significant that the previous chapter, looking at new theory, cites so many women scholars who have put life at the centre of the…"-Mariana Mazzucato, Mission Economy: A Moonshot Guide to Changing Capitalism
4. The Tyranny of Merit: What's Become of the Common Good?
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These are dangerous times for democracy. We live in an age of winners and losers, where the odds ar… read more
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"A wealthy CEO could justify his or her advantages to a lower paid worker on a factory floor as: "I am not worthier then you nor morally deserving of the privileged position I hold. My generous compen…"-Michael J. Sandel, The Tyranny of Merit: What's Become of the Common Good?
5. Cannibal Capitalism: How our System is Devouring Democracy, Care, and the Planet—and What We Can Do About It
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6. Liberalism and Its Discontents
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"Комуністичні суспільства були схильні цінувати виробництво більше за споживання, що призвело до поганих наслідків: у них були «герої соціалістичної праці», але не було продуктів на полицях магазинів."-Francis Fukuyama, Liberalism and Its Discontents
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"As instituições financeiras comportam-se de modo muito diferente do que as empresas na economia real. Ao contrário de uma companhia de manufatura, um grande banco de investimento é sistemicamente per…"-Francis Fukuyama, Liberalism and Its Discontents
7. The Big Con: How the Consulting Industry Weakens our Businesses, Infantilizes our Governments and Warps our Economies
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8. The Price of Peace: Money, Democracy, and the Life of John Maynard Keynes
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9. Limitarianism
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10. Hoe migratie echt werkt
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14. A Brief History of Equality
By: Thomas Piketty
4.00
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
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15. The Triumph of Injustice: How the Rich Dodge Taxes and How to Make Them Pay
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America’s runaway inequality has an engine: our unjust tax system. Even as they became fabulousl… read more
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16. Economics in America: An Immigrant Economist Explores the Land of Inequality
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Format: 280 pages, Hardcover
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17. Triggerpunkte: Konsens und Konflikt in der Gegenwartsgesellschaft
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18. Der Osten: eine westdeutsche Erfindung
By: Dirk Oschmann
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19. As Gods Among Men: A History of the Rich in the West
By: Guido Alfani
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Format: 440 pages, Hardcover
How the rich and the super-rich throughout Western history accumulated their wealth, behaved (or mi… read more
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"[The rich] are like the pearl in the oyster: shiny indeed, and produced by the living body of the oyster, but at the same time somewhat extraneous to the organism."-Guido Alfani, As Gods Among Men: A History of the Rich in the West
20. Free and Equal: A Manifesto for a Just Society
By: Daniel Chandler
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