Capital in the 2020s
Almost a decade ago, economist Thomas Piketty’s Capital in the Twenty-First Century changed the way many people understood capitalism and inequality.
In the years since, his research and ideas have helped jolt our politics out of autopilot and elevate solutions like a wealth tax into the mainstream.
This week’s episode of How to Save a Country—recorded in Paris following a panel discussion Piketty and host Felicia Wong participated in with historian Gary Gerstle—is about what comes next.
“I think it's important that progressives . . . start thinking again not only about next week, but also about next decade and next century,” Piketty tells Wong.
He talks about the possibility of a universal basic inheritance, the battle for progressive taxation, and what he sees as the key to prosperity: “much more investment in education, human capital, public infrastructure.”
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