Capital and Ideology
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ABOUT THIS EVENT
French economist Thomas Piketty has fundamentally changed the way we understand inequality.
His global bestseller Capital in the Twenty-First Century brought the phenomenon of rising inequality to our attention and highlighted its economic basis. Piketty’s latest book, Capital and Ideology, takes the discussion even further to examine inequality as a political phenomenon, shaped by ideology and social institutions.
What are the ideologies that have created our current age of inequality, and what are the risks this age poses? What would need to happen for change to occur?
Join Thomas Piketty in conversation with UNSW’s Richard Holden, as they explore the political basis of inequality in our hypercapitalist age.
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Thomas Piketty
Thomas Piketty is a leading French economist and Professor of Economics at the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences and the Paris School of Economics. He is the co-director of the World Inequality Lab and the World Inequality Database. Piketty is the author of research articles published in journals such as the Quarterly Journal of Economics, Journal of Political Economy, American Economic Review, Review of Economic Studies, Explorations in Economic History, Annales: Histoire, Sciences Sociales, and of a dozen books including the critically acclaimed and internationally bestselling Capital in the Twenty-First Century and Capital and Ideology.
Richard Holden
Richard Holden is a Professor of Economics at UNSW Sydney and President of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia. He was formerly on the faculty at MIT and the University of Chicago, and earned a PhD from Harvard University. He has published numerous papers in top economics journals and is a regular columnist at The Australian Financial Review.
