Nature, Culture, and Inequality
$28.00
- Hardcover
96 pages
- Release Date
2 September 2024
Summary
Understanding Inequality: Nature, Culture, and the Shaping of Societies
An insightful exploration of the nature of inequality. In his new work, Thomas Piketty explores how social inequality manifests itself very differently depending on the society and epoch in which it arises. History and culture play a central role, inequality being strongly linked to various socio-economic, political, civilizational, and religious developments.
So it is culture in the broadest sense that …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781761381034 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1761381032 |
| Author: | Thomas Piketty |
| Publisher: | Scribe Publications |
| Imprint: | Scribe Publications |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 96 |
| Release Date: | 2 September 2024 |
| Weight: | 268g |
| Dimensions: | 205mm x 138mm x 15mm |
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About The Author
Thomas Piketty
Thomas Piketty (Author)
Thomas Piketty is Professor at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) and the Paris School of Economics, and co-director of the World Inequality Lab. Best known for his bestselling book Capital in the Twenty-First Century, he is also the author of Capital and Ideology and A Brief History of Equality, among other works.
Willard Wood (Translator)
Willard Wood is the winner of the 2002 Lewis Galantière Award for Literary Translation and a 2000 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Translation. Willard has translated more than thirty books from the French. His recent books include Constellation by Adrien Bosc and The Goddess of Small Victories by Yannick Grannec. He lives in Connecticut.
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