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This 1,300-Page Anticapitalist History Gets a Few Things Wrong

Sven Beckert's Capitalism: A Global History is...not a reliable history.

Reason

Bad wealth made good: how to tackle Britain’s twin faultlines of low growth and rising inequality

In the run-up to the 2024 election, future prime minister Keir Starmer labelled wealth creation Labour’s number one mission. “It’s the only way our country can go forward,” he declared. “We should nourish and encourage that – not just individuals but businesses.”

The Conversation

'Deadly for our economy': French billionaire Bernard Arnault slams wealth tax

Politicians in France reacted to heated comments from the country’s richest man after Arnault called the Zucman tax a way to "destroy the French economy".

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Starmer and Reeves should prepare UK for wealth tax, say top economists

PM could raise ‘tens of billions’ while positioning Britain as progressive, say Thomas Piketty and others

The Guardian - UK

What 2,000 years of Chinese history reveals about today’s AI-driven technology panic – and the future of inequality

In the sweltering summer of AD18, a desperate chant echoed across China’s sun-scorched plains: “Heaven has gone blind!” Thousands of starving farmers, their faces smeared with ox blood, marched toward the opulent vaults held by the Han dynasty’s elite rulers.

The Conversation

The Trump revolution: where it came from and where it’s going

As Donald Trump prepares for his inauguration, the world is preparing for the beginning of the second Trump Revolution. Trump’s second term will be very different from his first, when his powers were more limited and restrained. In 2016 he did not win a majority of the popular vote.

The Conversation

The Guardian view on globalisation and its discontents: how the left was left behind

Editorial: As national populist parties gain ground in the west, progressives must put social and climate priorities ahead of market interests

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Can India become the world’s third superpower? It faces huge challenges in 2025

If India is to realise its dreams of ranking alongside the US and China it must maintain high growth rates and ensure the benefits of development reach the population as a whole – no easy task, as Shweta Sharma reports

The Independent UK

Is inequality a natural phenomenon? Thomas Piketty argues it isn’t – and proposes a way forward

Thomas Piketty’s Nature, Culture, and Inequality is a little book that addresses an issue of great significance: is the social inequality we observe every day natural?

The Conversation

South Africa’s unity government won’t dent poverty and inequality if it follows the same old policies – sociologist

A recent poll by the Social Research Foundation, a think thank, found that 60% of South Africans thought the government of national unity was working well. It also reported that support for the unity government’s anchor political parties, the African National Congress (ANC) and the Democratic Alliance (DA), had risen…

The Conversation

Nature, Culture, and Inequality by Thomas Piketty review – mind the gap

The author of Capital returns with a short book on inequality that asks big questions

The Guardian - UK

Labour is talking about a wealth tax again – what are its options and what might work?

Labour Party leader Chris Hipkins recently revealed the party is looking once again at its tax policy, including a possible wealth tax or a “capital income tax” (CIT).

The Conversation

France’s ‘hard left’ has been demonised – but its agenda is realistic, not radical

The Guardian - UK

Lurching to the right on migration won’t save Europe’s mainstream parties. Here’s why

Research found that it was socioeconomic factors that determined the switch to the right for rural voters, rather than xenophobia.

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Phil Magness: Who Really Pays the Most Taxes?

Economist and author Phil Magness debunks a recent New York Times piece and shoddy academic work about the rich and their taxes.

The Hindu

The wrong way to fight inequality

Allowing more competition in the economy would naturally reduce the wealth share of the top 1% and also benefit the wider economy

Top News

Exploring The Top 10 Political Thinkers Of The 21St Century

Explore the works of renowned intellectuals like Noam Chomsky, Angela Davis, and Thomas Piketty across diverse fields.

The Guardian - UK

The Guardian view on inequality and the super-rich: the status quo is unsustainable

Editorial: Growing private wealth, combined with public austerity, is undermining the health of western democracies

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Labour failed but New Zealand can’t put a wealth tax ‘back in the bottle’

Labour party couldn’t ‘sell’ the tax in the last election but the policy won’t fade away as global concern over wealth inequality deepens

The Guardian - UK

From Piketty’s Capital to Hawking’s The Theory of Everything: can one book explain it all?

Millennia-spanning takes on history, evolution and economics are booming. But who buys these ‘grand theory’ books? And do they actually read them?

The Guardian - UK

First Thing: Dutch election results put Geert Wilders’ far-right party in lead

European far-right leaders celebrate success of Wilders’ Party for Freedom, which has won 37 seats. Plus, welcome to the world of gossip surveillance

The Guardian - UK

Ban private jets to address climate crisis, says Thomas Piketty

French economist says class inequality must be at centre of climate response and calls for progressive carbon taxes

The Guardian - UK

Who are the polluter elite and how can we tackle carbon inequality?

Is capitalism the problem? Experts weigh in on ways to address the great carbon divide

The Guardian - US

Economists warn electing far-right Milei would spell ‘devastation’ for Argentina

More than 100 economists including Thomas Piketty and Jayati Ghosh publish open letter ahead of country’s 19 November election

The Conversation

Educated voters in Canada tend to vote for left-leaning parties while richer voters go right

It is hard to miss the increasing attention dedicated to transgender rights in contemporary politics.

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