Why save the bankers? : and other essays on our economic and political crisis / Thomas Piketty ; translated from the French by Seth Ackerman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Piketty, Thomas, 1971- author.

Standardized Title:

Essays. Selections. English

Language:

English

French

Subjects (All):

Financial crises--Europe.

Financial crises.

Global Financial Crisis, 2008-2009.

Banks and banking, Central--Europe.

Banks and banking, Central.

Monetary policy--Europe.

Monetary policy.

Europe--Economic policy.

Europe.

Europe--Economic conditions--21st century.

Europe--Politics and government--21st century.

Physical Description:

xii, 212 pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016.

Summary:

Shares incisive commentary on the financial meltdown and its aftermath, counseling democratic societies on how to avoid the practices that have led to unregulated markets and economic inequality.

Contents:

I. WHY SAVE THE BANKERS? : 2008-10. Why save the bankers? ; A trillion dollars ; Obama and FDR: a misleading analogy ; Profits, wages, and inequality ; The Irish disaster ; Central banks at work ; Forgotten inequalities ; Mysteries of the carbon tax ; Lessons for the tax system from the Bettencourt affair ; Enough of GDP, let's go back to national income ; Down with idiotic taxes! ; Who will be the winners of the crisis? ; With or without a platform? ; Record bank profits: a matter of politics

II. NO, THE GREEKS AREN'T LAZY : 2010-12. No, the Greeks aren't lazy ; Europe against the markets ; Rethinking central banks ; Does Liliane Bettencourt pay taxes? ; Toward a calm debate on the wealth tax ; Should we fear the Fed? ; The scandal of the Irish bank bailout ; Japan: private wealth, public debts ; Greece: for a European bank tax ; Poor as jobs ; Rethinking the European project

and fast ; Protectionism: a useful weapon ... For lack of anything better ; Francois Hollande, a new Roosevelt for Europe? ; Federalism: the only solution ; The what and why of federalism

III. ACTION, FAST! : 2012-15. Action, fast! ; Merkhollande and the Eurozone: shortsighted selfishness ; The Italian elections: Europe's responsibility ; For a European wealth tax ; Slavery: reparations through transparency ; A new Europe to overcome the crisis ; Can growth save us? ; IMF: still a ways to go! ; Libé: what does it mean to be free? ; On oligarchy in America ; To the polls, citizens! ; The exorbitant cost of being a small country ; Capital in Hong Kong? ; Capital according to Carlos Fuentes ; 2015: what shocks can get Europe moving? ; Spreading the democratic revolution to the rest of Europe ; The double hardship of the working class ; Must debts always be paid back? ; A crackdown alone will solve nothing.

Notes:

Includes index.

Local Notes:

Athenaeum copy: Shober Family Fund bookplate.

ISBN:

9780544663329 : HRD

0544663322 : HRD