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For our English speaking friends, who will have to wait a few months before @PikettyLeMonde's latest book ("Capital & Ideology") gets translated, here are a few hot quotes:
"#Inequality is not economically or technologically determined, it is ideological and political." ⬇️ (1/6)
"#Inequality is not economically or technologically determined, it is ideological and political." ⬇️ (1/6)
"Market and competition, profit and wage, capital and debt, skilled and unskilled workers, nationals and foreigners, tax havens and competitiveness, do not exist as such." ⬇️ (2/6)
"These are social and historical constructions which entirely depend on the legal, fiscal, educational and political systems we chose to set up." ⬇️ (3/6)
"These choices depend on each society's conceptions of social and economic justice and of the balance of power between competing groups and narratives." ⬇️ (4/6)
"The important point is that the balance of power between different groups and narratives is not only physical: it is also and above all intellectual and ideological. In other words, ideas and ideologies matter in history." ⬇️ (5/6)
"Ideas and ideologies allow to constantly imagine and structure ways to organise new worlds and different societies. Multiple trajectories are always possible." (6/6)
