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A review by vladco
Capital and Ideology by Thomas Piketty
3.0
A hefty 1104 pages of exhaustive, meticulous, and impressive discussion of the impossible entanglement of inequality, politics, and culture. But I'm so confused by it: who is this book for? The only folks that'll read it are the folks who are responsible for making the global mess that we're currently in, and who aren't incentivized to fix the mess of their own making, because the mess serves their desire to stay in office and extract wealth from those positions of power.
Someone needs to turn this into something that the mass of voters will actually read and be inspired by. Perhaps that's who the book is targeting: people with the skill to distill this massive text down into something that will actually induce change.
I don't regret reading this wonderful and impressive book, but I'm totally stumped by Piketty's theory of change. I also wish Piketty were partnered with a powerful editor who could crunch these 1,100 exhausting pages into the ~300 pages of thinking that really matters.
Someone needs to turn this into something that the mass of voters will actually read and be inspired by. Perhaps that's who the book is targeting: people with the skill to distill this massive text down into something that will actually induce change.
I don't regret reading this wonderful and impressive book, but I'm totally stumped by Piketty's theory of change. I also wish Piketty were partnered with a powerful editor who could crunch these 1,100 exhausting pages into the ~300 pages of thinking that really matters.