Equality is a struggle : bulletins from the front line, 2021-2025 / Thomas Piketty.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Piketty, Thomas, 1971- author.

Standardized Title:

Vers le socialisme écologique. English

Language:

English

French

Subjects (All):

World politics--21st century.

World politics.

Economic history--21st century.

Economic history.

France--Politics and government--2017-.

France.

Socialism.

Physical Description:

vii, 239 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Other Title:

Bulletins from the front line, 2021-2025

Place of Publication:

New Haven ; London : Yale University Press, 2025.

Summary:

"An acclaimed economist's observations on four years of events that have shaped the world. In this new volume drawn from his columns for the French newspaper Le Monde, renowned economist Thomas Piketty takes measure of the world since 2021: leaders grappling with the aftershocks of a global pandemic; politics shifting rightward in Europe and America; and wars breaking out and escalating, from Russia's invasion of Ukraine to the conflict in Israel and Gaza. Together with an extended introductory essay arguing that an ecological socialism remains the best hope for global equality, these articles present Piketty's vivid first draft of history--on the rise of China, political upheaval, armed conflict, inequity within and between nations, discrimination, and beyond. Despite the gathering clouds, Piketty continues to find reasons for hope."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Toward ecological socialism

Time for social justice

Combatting discrimination, measuring racism

Rights for poor countries

From basic income to inheritance for all

The G7 legalizes the right to defraud

Responding to the challenge of China with democratic socialism

Emerging from September 11

"Pandora Papers": maybe it is time to take action?

Can the French presidential election be saved?

The new global inequalities

Rightward shift, Macron's fault

Sanction the oligarchs, not the people

Confronting war, rethinking sanctions

The difficult return of the left-right divide

The return of the Popular Front

Moving away from three-tier democracy

For an autonomous and alterglobalist Europe

A queen with no lord?

Rethinking federalism

Redistributing wealth to save the planet

Rethinking protectionism

President of the rich, season 2

Emerging from the pension crisis through justice and universality

Macron, the social and economic mess

Can we trust constitutional judges?

What if economists were about to change?

For a European Parliamentary Union (EPU)

France and its territorial divides

Who has the most popular vote or the most bourgeois vote?

Israel-Palestine: breaking the deadlock

Taking the BRICS seriously

Escaping anti-poor ideology, protecting public service

Rethinking Europe after Delors

Peasants, the most unequal of professions

When the German Left was expropriating princes

Should Ukraine join the EU?

For a binational Israeli-Palestine state

For a geopolitical Europe, neither naive nor militaristic

Rebuilding the left

Europe must invest: Draghi is right

How to tax billionaires

Unite France and Germany to save Europe

For a new left-right cleavage

Democracy vs. oligarchy, the fight of the century.

Notes:

Originally published in French as Vers le socialisme écologique: Chroniques 2020-2024 by Éditions du Seuil, 2024 --Title page verso.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780300282757

0300282753

OCLC:

1526059530