Historians Examine Thomas Piketty’s Capital and Ideology
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The History of Inequality
I think it's really hard to, to read, pick at his book and make those arguments that this is, you know, an interloper who doesn't understand how history is done. I'm the worst example of that kind of historian who's maybe over concerned with defending the boundaries or say, no, you don't understand. You've not done the work to gain access to this mystic power that we historians have. But he does a pretty good job. It's schematic. He's proposing these different forms of inequality regime. Propriotarianism, social democratic neo-propriotarianist, tri-functional in that sense. And although he's proposing a kind of
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