SUMMARY - Capital and Ideology by Thomas Piketty

* Our summary is short, simple and pragmatic. It allows you to have the essential ideas of a big book in less than 30 minutes.


*By reading this summary, you will discover how, through an analysis of capital and social distribution data, human societies have evolved.


*You will also discover : how great transformations are born from the meeting of ideas and events; how ideology is used to justify existing inequalities; that progressive income tax has promoted economic growth while lowering the level of inequality; that today's society retains many traces of the societies that preceded it; the influence of the communist experience on world ideology; proposals for building a more egalitarian society.


*Throughout history, societies have largely evolved from a medieval society of orders to today's hypercapitalist society. Using a large database, economist Thomas Piketty has analyzed the evolutions and transformations that have shaped the world. Each period presents an ideology that has allowed the acceptance of a model of organization and distribution of wealth. Indeed, the ideology represents a foundation of values and beliefs that justifies the inequalities generated by the societal model. The study of the trajectories taken by successive societies in history demonstrates their multiplicity. It breaks with a deterministic vision of the world. Today's society has inherited these varied trajectories. Would it be possible to derive a new, more egalitarian ideology from them?


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