A BRIEF HISTORY OF EQUALITY by Thomas Piketty

Belknap Press. Hardcover. NEW. The world?s leading economist of inequality presents a concise, sweeping and surprisingly optimistic history of human progress toward equality despite crises, disasters, and backsliding.It?s easy to be pessimistic about inequality. We know it has increased dramatically in many parts of the world over the past two generations. No one has done more to reveal the problem than Thomas Piketty. Now, in this surprising and powerful new w