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Thomas Piketty in America

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 April 2017

Nicolas Barreyre
Nicolas Barreyre*
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Centre d’études nord-américaines – EHESS
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This essay proposes a reading of Capital in the Twenty-First Century from a perspective rooted in the nineteenth-century United States. It explores some of the ways that Piketty’s book and its American reception could lead to a reconceptualization of US history. In a feedback loop, this exploration in turn suggests elements that extend and qualify some of Piketty’s conclusions, especially regarding the role of politics in the processes responsible for the growth of inequality under modern capitalism.

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Reading Thomas Piketty’s Capital in the Twenty-First Century
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Annales. Histoire, Sciences Sociales - English Edition , Volume 70 , Issue 1 , March 2015 , pp. 111 - 119
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Copyright © Les Éditions de l’EHESS 2015

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