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A Brief History of Equality

[1] 书籍信息

Thomas Piketty, A Brief History of Equality, tr. Steven Rendall, Harvard University Press, April 2022.

[2] 作者简介

托马斯·皮凯蒂（Thomas Piketty），1971年生于法国上塞纳省。法国著名经济学家，巴黎经济学院教授，法国社会科学高等研究院研究主任，主要研究财富与收入不平等。 他在其2013年的畅销书《二十一世纪资本论》中讨论了他对过去250年的财富集中与分布的研究。他认为由于发达国家的资本回报率始终高于经济增长率，这将导致财富不均逐步扩大。

[3] 书籍简介

The world's leading economist of inequality presents a short but sweeping and surprisingly optimistic history of human progress toward equality despite crises, disasters, and backsliding, a perfect introduction to the ideas developed in his monumental earlier books. It is easy to be pessimistic about inequality. We know it has increased dramatically in many parts of the world over the past two generations. No one has done more to reveal the problem than Thomas Piketty. Now, in this surprising and powerful new work, Piketty reminds us that the grand sweep of history gives us reasons to be optimistic. Over the centuries, he shows, we have been moving toward greater equality. 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. It's a history of violence and social struggle, punctuated by regression and disaster. 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 health care, education, and the rights of citizenship. Our rough march forward is political and ideological, an endless fight against injustice. 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. At the same time, we need to resist historical amnesia and the temptations of cultural separatism and intellectual compartmentalization. At stake is the quality of life for billions of people. We know we can do better, Piketty concludes. The past shows us how. The future is up to us.

[4] 书籍目录

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. The Movement toward Equality: The First Milestones

2. The Slow Deconcentration of Power and Property

3. The Heritage of Slavery and Colonialism

4. The Question of Reparations

5. Revolution, Status, and Class

6. The “Great Redistribution”: 1914–1980

7. Democracy, Socialism, and Progressive Taxation

8. Real Equality against Discrimination

9. Exiting Neocolonialism

10. Toward a Democratic, Ecological, and Multicultural Socialism

Contents in Detail

List of Tables and Illustrations

Index

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