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Piketty’s New Book: Praise for Caste-Based Affirmative Action and Other Takeaways for India -Ashish Mehta

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In 'Capital and Ideology', the economist expands his investigations across the globe and over long periods of history to explore the role of ideologies in fuelling inequality.

Thomas Piketty made his name in 2014, when his Capital in the Twenty-First Century became an unlikely bestseller. Overnight, he achieved rockstar status – a rarity for an economist. The book seemed to express the outrage against economic inequality, which was making headlines then, even if its theme was limited. This month, he has released a more ambitious work, Capital and Ideology (Harvard University Press), expanding his investigations across the globe and over long periods of history to reveal how ideologies fuel inequalities.

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