A Brief History of Equality

A Brief History of Equality

By
Thomas Piketty
Thomas Piketty,
Steven Rendall
Steven Rendall
2022 • 288 pages

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89 books

In Translation

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Sanshirō
Come Close
Norwegian Wood Vol. 2
Sputnik Sweetheart
Out
Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress
The Count of Monte Cristo

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97 books

Non Fiction

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The Beauty Myth
Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex
Skyscrapers, Celadon and Kimchi: A Korean Notebook
Youngblood 2.0
Tikman ang Langit: An Anthology on the Eraserheads
Quiet : The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking
Caffeinated: How Our Daily Habit Helps, Hurts, and Hooks Us

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6 books

Economics

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A Brief History of Equality
Economics
Debt: The First 5,000 Years
Why Information Grows
Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth, and Faith in the New China

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50 books

Social Change

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Carlos
Feel Good Productivity
The Blue Sweater
Banker to the Poor
Building Social Business
Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty
Stories That Stick
Good Is the New Cool: Market Like You Give a Damn

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61 books

Politics

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SDO
Capital: A Critique of Political Economy, Volume 1
Revolutionary Suicide
The State and Revolution
The Communist Manifesto
The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State
Socialism

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16 books

Economics

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Devin
Capital in the Twenty-First Century
Capital and Ideology
A Brief History of Equality
Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism
Fight Like Hell
The Cost of Sexism
The Best Minds: A Story of Friendship, Madness, and the Tragedy of Good Intentions

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148 books

Maybe

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Chris
Four fish : the future of the last wild food
Thunderstruck
Let Them Be Eaten By Bears: A Fearless Guide to Taking Our Kids Into the Great Outdoors
What's a Dog For?: The Surprising History, Science, Philosophy, and Politics of Man's Best Friend
Inferno
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326 books

Nonfiction

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Things Might Go Terribly, Horribly Wrong: A Guide to Life Liberated from Anxiety
Debt: The First 5,000 Years
No god but God
Maphead: Charting the Wide, Weird World of Geography Wonks
The Signal and the Noise: The Art and Science of Prediction
Rob Neyer's Big Book of Baseball Blunders: A Complete Guide to the Worst Decisions and Stupidest Moments in Baseball History
Crossworld

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41 books

Economics

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Griftopia
Race and the Invisible Hand : How White Networks Exclude Black Men from Blue-Collar Jobs
Debt: The First 5,000 Years
Capital in the Twenty-First Century
A Random Walk Down Wall Street
Thinking, Fast and Slow
Economics rules : the rights and wrongs of the dismal science

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Abandoned

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A Choice Of Gods
A Practical Guide For Policy Analysis: The Eightfold Path To More Effective Problem Solving
The Cider House Rules
Different Mirror
The age of revolution, 1789-1848.
A Brief History of Equality
The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power

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History

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Silencing the Past
A convenient hatred
History of the Jews in Modern Times
Maus II: A Survivor's Tale: And Here My Troubles Began
Footnotes in Gaza
Logicomix
Beloved

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Political Economy

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The Origin of Capitalism: A Longer View
Ages of American Capitalism: A History of the United States
Las venas abiertas de América Latina
The Rise and Decline of Patriarchal Systems: An Intersectional Political Economy
An introduction to the three volumes of Karl Marx's Capital
Social Reproduction Theory and the Socialist Horizon: Work, Power and Political Strategy
The Promise of Access

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20 books

Inequality

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Winners Take All
The Divide: American Injustice in the Age of the Wealth Gap
The Tyranny of the Meritocracy
The Merit Myth: How Our Colleges Favor the Rich and Divide America
The Privileged Poor
Paying for the Party: How College Maintains Inequality
The Rise and Decline of Patriarchal Systems: An Intersectional Political Economy

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Capitalism

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Take Back Your Family: From the Tyrants of Burnout, Busyness, Individualism, and the Nuclear Ideal
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting by in America
Bait and Switch
Had I Known
Religion and the Rise of Capitalism
Debt: The First 5,000 Years

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Political History

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Equality under the Constitution: Reclaiming the Fourteenth Amendment
Separating Church and State: A History
The Corporation: The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power
The Half Has Never Been Told
Going Stealth: Transgender Politics and U.S. Surveillance Practices
The World the Plague Made
Mass Deception: Moral Panic and the U.S. War on Iraq