![]() Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Piketty, you are interested in hinge points where people cease being captivated by one ideology and begin seeing differently (might one also say, begin being captivated by another ideology?) In 2014, Ursula le Guin said: Here is John’s question about his favorite writer, the one Adaner teased him for not asking: Philip Larkin, “ Why aren’t they screaming?” (from the poem “The Old Fools”) Why did he accept our invitation? A mystery, but who are we to look a gift economist in the mouth? Or even to see that inequality as part of the natural order of things. ask what sorts of stories societies (and individuals within those societies) tell themselves so as to tolerate such inequality-and the poverty and misery it produces. His recent magnum opus, Capital and Ideology. ![]() Why did we invite him? John thinks nobody is better than Piketty at mapping and explaining the nature and origin of the glaring and growing inequality that everywhere defines wealth distribution in the 21st century-both between societies and within them. ![]()
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