Christopher Clark & Katja Hoyer: Revolutionary Spring
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The Fascination for Poverty
In the 1840s there's this um phenomenal expansion of interest in the poor. It starts as a sort of a factual literature of reportage with tables and details and statistics but you get similar books right across the continent. We're now once again in an era where there is deep and worried interest in inequality that was not the case 15 years ago, says Piketty.
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