Should-Read: Asad Abbasi: After Piketty: The Agenda for E...

Should-Read: Asad Abbasi: After Piketty: The Agenda for Economics and Inequality: "In the final chapter, Piketty explains, defends and elaborates...

Capital, Piketty notes, embodies multidimensional history, rooted as much in politics as in economics. Capital serves as an ���introduction��� to this history (548-53). ���Had I believed���, Piketty quips, ���in the one dimensional neoclassical model of capital accumulation [���] then my book would have been 30 pages long rather than 800 pages���. Piketty argues that capitalism contains an inherent capacity to produce unequal societies... hopes that his work provokes discussion on wealth and inequality. After Piketty��not only generates such debate, but also deepens it by highlighting the gaps missed by Piketty. For this reason, After Piketty ticks the box as being as much an ���homage��� to, as a critique of, Piketty���s Capital. After Piketty is not your typical holiday read. It is work of serious scholarship. The academic language of some chapters pinpoints its intended audience: scholars, students, policymakers and politicians. Yet, the topics discussed in the book affect all citizens. High inequality should concern everyone because it is a moral, social and political issue...