Thomas Piketty
French economist at the Paris School of Economics, born in 1971; author of Capital in the Twenty-First Century (French edition 2013, English 2014).
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The distribution of wealth has always been political and cannot be reduced to economic mechanisms
The first is that one should be wary of any economic determinism in regard to inequalities of wealth and income. The history of the distribution of wealth has always been deeply political, and it cannot be reduced to purely economic mechanisms.
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The distribution of wealth has always been political and cannot be reduced to economic mechanisms
The first is that one should be wary of any economic determinism in regard to inequalities of wealth and income. The history of the distribution of wealth has always been deeply political, and it cannot be reduced to purely economic mechanisms.
Capital in the Twenty-First Century (Harvard University Press, 2017 paperback; tr. Arthur Goldhammer) Said c. 2013
Economics is too taken with mathematics and theory, at the expense of history and the other social sciences
To put it bluntly, the discipline of economics has yet to get over its childish passion for mathematics and for purely theoretical and often highly ideological speculation, at the expense of historical research and collaboration with the other social sciences.
Capital in the Twenty-First Century (Harvard University Press, 2017 paperback; tr. Arthur Goldhammer) Said c. 2013
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