Capital and Ideology, Thomas Piketty. Translated by Arthur Goldhammer. Harvard University Press, 2020, pp. ix + 1093

• Autor: Anderson, Elizabeth
• Assuntos: Capital ; Capitalism ; Caste ; Charity ; Christian churches ; Civilization ; Clergy ; Colonialism ; Division of labor ; Economic growth ; Egalitarianism ; Emancipation of slaves ; Equal rights ; Free markets ; History ; Ideology ; Inequality ; Islam ; Manual workers ; Mobilization ; Moral education ; Piketty, Thomas ; Private property ; Property rights ; Slavery ; Social democracy ; Society ; Trade ; Wealth ; Wealth distribution ; Workers
• É parte de: Economics and Philosophy, 2021, Vol.37 (1), p.150-156
• Descrição: [...]Piketty argued that when the rate of return on capital exceeds the rate of economic growth (when r > g), the economy will generate runaway inequality, in which the capital share of income will dwarf labour’s share. What path is chosen depends on ideological persuasion and mobilization of people behind different visions of a just society. [...]Sweden, without pressure from war or other catastrophes, rapidly switched from one of the most extreme inequality regimes in Europe, in which votes were allocated in proportion to wealth, to a highly egalitarian social democracy (185–9). Premodern Europe, India, China, Japan and Islamic trifunctional societies divided society into three broad classes: the ‘clergy’ (a pious and intellectual class, needed to advise leaders on wise policy, and promote moral and spiritual order, education and charity), the nobility (a landowning and military class, needed to perform ‘regelian’ or state functions, including the administration of justice and military defence), and workers (who were sometimes subdivided into free and servile labourers, as in the Medieval European division between free workers and serfs, or the Hindu varna or caste division of Vaishyas and Shudras). According to Whately (1832), civilization requires a division of labour in which ordinary workers produce a surplus that can support everyone engaged in the distinctively civilized work of government, churches, schools, commerce, the arts, sciences
  
• Editor: Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press
  
• Idioma: Inglês