Time for socialism : dispatches from a world on fire, 2016-2021 / Thomas Piketty ; translation from the original French by Kristin Couper.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Piketty, Thomas, 1971- author.

Contributor:

Couper, Kristin, translator.

Standardized Title:

Vivement le socialisme!. English

Language:

English

French

Subjects (All):

Economic history--21st century.

Economic history.

Economics--Political aspects.

Economics.

Socialism.

History.

Economic conditions.

Europe--Economic conditions--21st century.

Europe.

Socialism--History--21st century.

Political science.

Genre:

Essays.

History.

Physical Description:

viii, 346 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

New Haven : Yale University Press, [2021]

Language Note:

Translated from the French.

Summary:

As a correspondent for the French newspaper Le Monde, world-renowned economist Thomas Piketty has documented the rise and fall of Trump, the drama of Brexit, Emmanuel Macron's ascendance to the French presidency, the unfolding of a global pandemic, and much else besides, always from the perspective of his fight for a more equitable world. This collection brings together those articles and is prefaced by an extended introductory essay, in which Piketty argues that the time has come to support an inclusive and expansive conception of socialism as a counterweight against the hypercapitalism that defines our current economic ideology. These essays offer a first draft of history from one of the world's leading economists and public figures, detailing the struggle against inequalities and tax evasion, in favor of a federalist Europe and a globalization more respectful of work and the environment.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: Hillary, Apple, and Us

The IMF, the Inequality Debate, and Economic Research

The French Right and the European Budgetary Rules

Gender Pay Inequality: 19% or 64%?

Agenda for Another Globalization

Basic Income or Fair Wage?

The Passing of Anthony B. Atkinson

On Productivity in France and in Germany

Long Live Populism!

On Inequality in China

For a Democratic Eurozone Government

Public Capital, Private Capital

What Would a Democratic Eurozone Assembly Look Like?

Inequality in France

What Reforms for France?

Reagan to the Power of Ten

Will Macron's Marchers Take Power?

The CICE Comedy

Rethinking the Capital Code

Suppression of the Wealth Tax: A Historical Error

Budget 2018: French Youth Sacrificed

The Catalan Syndrome

Trump, Macron: Same Fight

2018: The Year of Europe

Parcoursup: Could Do Better

Toward a Union in the Union

Capital in Russia

May 1968 and Inequality

The Transferunion Fantasy

Europe, Migrants, and Trade

Social-Nativism: The Italian Nightmare

Brazil: The First Republic under Threat

Le Monde and the Billionaires

Manifesto for the Democratization of Europe

Yellow Vests and Tax Justice

1789: The Return of the Debt

Wealth Tax in America

To Love Europe Is to Change It

Basic Income in India

Europe and the Class Cleavage

The Illusion of Centrist Ecology

Will Money Creation Save Us?

What Is a Fair Pension System?

Toward a Circular Economy

Surpassing Identity Conflict via Economic Justice

Several Universal Retirement Schemes Are Possible

After the Climate Denial, the Inequality Denial

Social-Federalism vs. National-Liberalism

The Franco-German Assembly, a Unique Opportunity for Tax Justice in Europe

Sanders to the Aid of Democracy in the United States

Avoiding the Worst

The Age of Green Money

Confronting Racism, Repairing History

Reconstructing Internationalism

Can the Left Unite on Europe?

What to Do with Covid Debt

Global Inequalities: Where Do We Stand?

The Fall of the U.S. Idol.

Notes:

"Originally published as Vivement le Socialisme! Chroniques, 2016-2020, © Éditions du Seuil, 2020."--Title page verso.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780300259667

0300259662

OCLC:

1262384246