Inequality
The Racial Wealth Gap Is About the Upper Classes
Here’s an idea: we should redistribute wealth from the largely white 1 percent to the poor and working class of all races — tackling...
Whitewashing Capitalism
How ECON 100 obscures the relationships among capitalism, racism and racial inequality
by Tim Koechlin
June 16, 2020
Racial inequality is a glaring, enduring and essential fact...
The Murder of George Floyd Is Normal in an Abnormal Society
By Vijay Prashad
June 3, 2020
There is no need to wonder why George Floyd (age 46) was murdered in broad daylight in Minneapolis, Minnesota, on...
«Le choc de cette crise va provoquer la révolution»: Entretien avec...
Par Charlotte Vautier
07 mai 2020
En 1964, Che Guevara lui a demandé de « lutter contre les travers du capitalisme ». C’est ce que le...
Thomas Piketty : “Il faut rétablir l’impôt sur la fortune”
Apri 27, 2020
L'économiste Thomas Piketty est l'invité d'Hélène Roussel et de Yaël Goosz.
Au-delà d'un rétablissement de l'ISF, l'économiste Thomas Piketty juge qu'il faut...
Covid-19 is killing the GHOST WORKERS of Britain that even the...
By Dr Lisa McKenzie
25 Apr, 2020 17:12
If anything, the coronavirus pandemic has been the opposite of a ‘great equalizer’, throwing class inequality into...
EU-wide inequality is back to pre-crisis levels
by Michael Dauderstädt
15th April 2020
After almost a decade, EU-wide inequality finally regained its previous low of 2009 due to relatively strong growth in the...
Quarter of Europe’s jobs at risk from coronavirus crisis: report
Unemployment could almost double in the coming months, McKinsey predicts.
By Hannah Brenton
4/20/20
More than a quarter of all jobs in Europe could be impacted...
What’s wrong with inequality?
This week we speak to Thomas Piketty, an economist and the author of “Capital in the Twenty-First Century” and “Capital and Ideology”
Feb 13th 2020
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Thomas Piketty : «Il va y avoir des crises sociales extrêmement...
Propos recueillis par Hervé Kempf
7 décembre 2019
Dans cet entretien vidéo exceptionnel, l’économiste Thomas Piketty décrit la situation profondément inégalitaire qui mine les sociétés aujourd’hui....