If there is anything surprising about Piketty’s work, considering he is an economist who subscribes to mainstream economic theory, it is that throughout his exhaustive empirical research spanning from the eighteenth century until today, it identifies capitalism as a mechanism that inherently produces inequality. In the context of the ideological emptiness in bourgeois theory created by the Great Recession, it is by no means coincidence that Piketty’s book, which focuses on the dynamics of inequality in the capitalist economy, has become a significant political event, especially in Anglo-Saxon countries, and particularly in the US. According to The Guardian “Carrying it under your arm has, in certain latitudes of Manhattan, become the newest tool for making a social connection among young progressives.” The book that some consider the counterpart of the Fukuyama “moment” that took place more than a decade ago, and which is suggestively known just as “Capital” in the US, has generated an overwhelming variety of reviews from every position of economic theory. Originally published in Ideas de Izquierda 10 Thomas Piketty’s book Capital in the 21st Century has reached second place on the Amazon bestsellers list, and third on the The New York Times’ list. Considerations on Thomas Piketty and inequality as manifest destinyĮconomist, Karl Marx Institute - Argentina
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