Summary
"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 millen... Full description
- Part one. Inequality regimes in history ; Ternary societies : trifunctional inequality
- European societies of orders : power and property
- The invention of ownership societies
- Ownership societies : the case of France
- Ownership societies : European trajectories.
- Part two. Slave and colonial societies ; Slave societies : extreme inequality
- Colonial societies : diversity and domination
- Ternary societies and colonialism : the case of India
- Ternary societies and colonialism : Eurasian trajectories.
- Part three. The great transformation of the twentieth century ; The crisis of ownership societies
- Social-democratic societies : incomplete equality
- Communist and Post-Communist societies
- Hypercapitalism : between modernity and archaism.
- Part four. Rethinking the dimensions of political conflict ; Borders and property : the construction of equality
- Brahmin left : new Euro-american cleavages
- Social nativism : the postcolonial identitarian trap
- Elements for a participatory socialism for the twenty-first century
- Conclusion.
- Introduction
- Inequality regimes in history
- Slave and colonial societies
- The great transformation of the twentieth century
- Rethinking the dimensions of political conflict
- Conclusion.