| Why Save the Bankers?: And Other Essays on Our Economic and Political Crisis Contributor(s): Piketty, Thomas (Author) |
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ISBN: 0544947282 ISBN-13: 9780544947283 Publisher: Mariner Books OUR PRICE: $15.19 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: April 2017 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Business & Economics | Economic Conditions - Political Science | Public Policy - Economic Policy - Business & Economics | Banks & Banking |
| Dewey: 330.94 |
| Physical Information: 0.7" H x 5.2" W x 7.9" (0.40 lbs) 224 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 21st Century - Cultural Region - Western Europe - Cultural Region - Eastern Europe - Cultural Region - Central Europe |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: "Piketty unleashed on real-time economics is a revelation." -- Guardian Thomas Piketty's work has proved that unfettered markets lead to increasing inequality. Without meaningful regulation, capitalist economies will concentrate wealth in an ever smaller number of hands. For years, this critical challenge to democracy has been the focus of Piketty's monthly newspaper columns, which pierce the surface of current events to reveal the economic forces underneath. Why Save the Bankers? brings together selected columns from the period bookended by the September 2008 collapse of Lehman Brothers and the terrorist attacks in Paris in November 2015. In crystalline prose, Piketty examines a wide range of topics, and along the way he decodes the European Union's economic troubles, weighs in on oligarchy in the United States, wonders whether debts actually need to be paid back, and discovers surprising lessons about inequality by examining the career of Steve Jobs. Coursing with insight and flashes of wit, these brief essays offer a view of recent history through the eyes of one of the most influential economic thinkers of our time. "Anyone with an interest in politics, monetary policy, or international diplomacy will get a kick out of Piketty's clear discussion." -- Shelf Awareness "If you have been influenced by Piketty's landmark work on inequality, make sure to read this next." -- Naomi Klein, author of The Shock Doctrine and This Changes Everything |
Contributor Bio(s): Ackerman, Seth: - SETH ACKERMAN is a historian of 20th-century Europe. He is an editor at Jacobin, where his translations have previously been published.Piketty, Thomas: - THOMAS PIKETTY is professor of economics at the Paris School of Economics and the École des hautes études en sciences sociale, and Centennial Professor at the London School of Economics's International Inequalities Institute. He is the author of numerous articles and a dozen books. He has done major historical and theoretical work on the interplay between economic development and the distribution of income and wealth. His most recent book is Capital in the Twenty-First Century. He lives in Paris, France. |