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Capital in the Twenty-First Century (Harvard University Press, 2017 paperback; tr. Arthur Goldhammer)

Thomas Piketty · c. 2013

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  1. 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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  2. To put it bluntly, the discipline of economics has yet to get over its childish passion for mathematics and for purely theoretical and often highly ideological speculation, at the expense of historical research and collaboration with the other social sciences.

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