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The distribution of wealth has always been political and cannot be reduced to economic mechanisms
Drawn from what Thomas Piketty said
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- Thomas Piketty French economist at the Paris School of Economics
The first is that one should be wary of any economic determinism in regard to inequalities of wealth and income. The history of the distribution of wealth has always been deeply political, and it cannot be reduced to purely economic mechanisms.
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