2020

CAPITAL AND IDEOLOGY by Thomas Piketty Belknap Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts Hardcover: 1,104 pages Price: AUD$79.99 Reviewed by Colin Teese Back in 2014, French academic economist Thomas Piketty published Capital in the Twenty-First Century. His aim was to codify what he called the “grand dynamics” that drove the accumulation and distribution of capital. He brought to our attention new facts and penetrating observations about the evolution of inequality and prospects for economic growth, which are at the heart of the political economy. He brought into clear focus the issue of inequality as a worthwhile source of academic study. Before that book,…