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History shows a long-run movement toward equality that went together with prosperity
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- Thomas Piketty French economist at the Paris School of Economics
as I stress in my new book, A Brief History of Equality, there’s been a long-run movement toward more equality in history, together with a movement toward more economic prosperity, and I argue that the two movements really came together.
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