作者:
Thomas Piketty 出版社: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press 原作名: Capital et idéologie 译者:
Arthur Goldhammer 页数: 1104/1105 装帧: pdf ISBN: 9780674245075
The epic successor to one of the most important books of the century: at once a retelling of global history, a scathing critique of contemporary politics, and a bold proposal for a new and fairer economic system.
Thomas Piketty’s bestselling Capital in the Twenty-First Century galvanized global debate about inequality. In this audacious follow-up, Pik...
The epic successor to one of the most important books of the century: at once a retelling of global history, a scathing critique of contemporary politics, and a bold proposal for a new and fairer economic system.
Thomas Piketty’s bestselling Capital in the Twenty-First Century galvanized global debate about inequality. In this audacious follow-up, Piketty challenges us to revolutionize how we think about politics, ideology, and history. He exposes the ideas that have sustained inequality for the past millennium, reveals why the shallow politics of right and left are failing us today, and outlines the structure of a fairer economic system.
Our economy, Piketty observes, is not a natural fact. Markets, profits, and capital are all historical constructs that depend on choices. Piketty explores the material and ideological interactions of conflicting social groups that have given us slavery, serfdom, colonialism, communism, and hypercapitalism, shaping the lives of billions. He concludes that the great driver of human progress over the centuries has been the struggle for equality and education and not, as often argued, the assertion of property rights or the pursuit of stability. The new era of extreme inequality that has derailed that progress since the 1980s, he shows, is partly a reaction against communism, but it is also the fruit of ignorance, intellectual specialization, and our drift toward the dead-end politics of identity.
Once we understand this, we can begin to envision a more balanced approach to economics and politics. Piketty argues for a new “participatory” socialism, a system founded on an ideology of equality, social property, education, and the sharing of knowledge and power. Capital and Ideology is destined to be one of the indispensable books of our time, a work that will not only help us understand the world, but that will change it.
Thomas Piketty is Professor of Economics and Economic History at the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences and the Paris School of Economics. His books include A Brief History of Equality, Capital and Ideology, and the bestselling Capital in the Twenty-First Century.
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Preface and Acknowledgments . vii
Introduction . 1
Part One. Inequality Regimes in History
1. Ternary Societies: Trifunctional Inequality . 51
2. European Societies of Orders: Power and Property . 65
3. The Invention of Ownership Societies . 99
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Preface and Acknowledgments . vii
Introduction . 1
Part One. Inequality Regimes in History
1. Ternary Societies: Trifunctional Inequality . 51
2. European Societies of Orders: Power and Property . 65
3. The Invention of Ownership Societies . 99
4. Ownership Societies: The Case of France . 126
5. Ownership Societies: European Trajectories . 156
Part Two. Slave and Colonial Societies
6. Slave Societies: Extreme Inequality . 203
7. Colonial Societies: Diversity and Domination . 252
8. Ternary Societies and Colonialism: The Case of India . 304
9. Ternary Societies and Colonialism: Eurasian Trajectories . 362
Part Three. The Great Transformation of the Twentieth Century
10. The Crisis of Ownership Societies . 415
11. Social-Democratic Societies: Incomplete Equality . 486
12. Communist and Postcommunist Societies . 578
13. Hypercapitalism: Between Modernity and Archaism . 648
Part Four. Rethinking the Dimensions of Political Conflict
14. Borders and Property: The Construction of Equality . 719
15. Brahmin Left: New Euro-American Cleavages . 807
16. Social Nativism: The Postcolonial Identitarian Trap . 862
17. Elements for a Participatory Socialism for the Twenty-First Century . 966
Conclusion . 1035
Glossary . 1043
Contents in Detail . 1045
List of Tables and Illustrations . 1058
Index . 1065
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Large-scale social organization is never simple, and criticism of an existing regime is never enough to ensure that something better will replace it. (查看原文)
The wealthiest individuals can use it to justify their position vis-à-vis the poorest: they deserve what they have, they say, because of their talent and effort, and in any case inequality contributes to social stability, which supposedly benefits everyone. The wealthiest countries can also justify their domination over the poorest on the grounds that their laws and institutions are superior. The problem is that the arguments and facts advanced in support of these positions are not always convincing. (查看原文)
inequality’s ideological roots,inequality is a political construct not an economic inevitability, modern time meritocracy myths obscure inherited wealth advantages
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