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Why Save the Bankers?: And Other Essays on Our Economic and Political Crisis
Why Save the Bankers And Other Essays on Our Economic and Political Crisis Author:Thomas Piketty "Piketty unleashed on real-time economics is a revelation: he is lucid and persuasive . . . [and] draws on a vast and unusual store of honesty and emotional intelligence." ?Guardian — "Piketty for the proletariat." ?The Millions, "Most Anticipated Nonfiction of 2016" — Thomas Piketty?s work has proved that unfettered markets lead to increasing ine... more »quality, concentrating wealth in an ever smaller number of hands. Armed with this knowledge, democratic societies face a defining challenge: fending off a new aristocracy. For years, Piketty has wrestled with this problem in his monthly newspaper column, which pierces the surface of current events to reveal the economic forces underneath. Why Save the Bankers? brings together selected columns, now translated and annotated, from the period bookended by the September 2008 collapse of Lehman Brothers and the Paris attacks of November 2015. In these brief essays, Piketty brilliantly decodes the European sovereign debt crisis, weighs in on oligarchy in the United States, wonders whether debts actually need to be paid back, and discovers surprising lessons about inequality by examining the career of Steve Jobs. Coursing with insight and flashes of wit, Why Save the Bankers? offers a view of recent history through the eyes of one of the most influential economic thinkers of our time.« less