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The celebrated french economist is back with an ambitious and optimistic. Now, hes back with capital and ideology belknap press of harvard university press, 2020, a global look at the history of the problem, how institutions. French economist thomas pikettys latest book, capital and ideology, looks at the advent and fall of these ideologies, and how they could evolve in the future. Edward conards new book is a rousing defense of conservative beliefs about how markets and incentives drive prosperity. Economists are rethinking the numbers on inequality. Previously, piketty, who teaches at the paris school of economics, had. In particular, it defines a clear picture of the nature of income inequality and capital inequality as the former began to observably increase in the 90s, the time at which the book was written. The rich are about to get richer as inequality will soon. Capital in the twentyfirst century first wrote this short book on economic inequality in 1997. French economist and bestselling author piketty economics, paris sch.