In his latest book, 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\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
In his latest book, 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\u2019s a history of violence and social struggle, punctuated by regression and disaster. But through […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":99949,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","tags":[],"mec_category":[878,2378,542],"mec_speaker":[1496],"class_list":["post-99948","mec-events","type-mec-events","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","mec_category-film-discussion","mec_category-free-event","mec_category-webinar"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n