Brief History of Equality

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Publikuota 2022 m. birželio 19 d., Harvard University Press.

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978-0-674-27355-9
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A summary of how inequality has decreased over time, an examination of the mechanisms involved in the decrease, and suggestions about what must be done to continue the decrease.

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apžvelgė autoriaus Thomas Piketty knygą Brief History of Equality

A Brief History of Equality

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Piketty has three objectives in presenting a brief history of equality. The first is to define equality, and describe its behavior over the past couple of centuries. The second is to determine the motivations and mechanisms supporting and opposing equality. And the third objective is to extrapolate supportive motivations and mechanisms into the future to extend and improve equality. There are a number of subsidiary objectives, the most important of which is to establish restorative justice for people and places ravaged by the economic and political systems set up to feed the growth of colonial and neocolonial empires.

The notion of equality shifts between equality of opportunity for intangibles, such as suffrage and education, and equality of outcome for tangibles, such as income and property. Measures of equality should be multidimensional (social, economic, environmental) to provide both broad determinations of equality and guidance for governance. The mechanisms are principally taxation, …