{"id":4761,"date":"2020-05-11T14:54:51","date_gmt":"2020-05-11T06:54:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.rchss.sinica.edu.tw\/wwchu\/?p=4761"},"modified":"2020-05-11T14:54:51","modified_gmt":"2020-05-11T06:54:51","slug":"thomas-piketty-takes-on-the-ideology-of-inequality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.rchss.sinica.edu.tw\/wwchu\/?p=4761","title":{"rendered":"Thomas Piketty Takes On the Ideology of Inequality"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><span style=\"font-family: 'Droid Sans', Arial, sans-serif;font-size: 14px\">In his sweeping new history, the economist systematically demolishes the conceit that extreme inequality is our destiny, rather than our choice.<\/span><\/h1>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bostonreview.net\/author\/marshall-steinbaum\">MARSHALL STEINBAUM<\/a>, Boston Review, 2020\/3\/25<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bostonreview.net\/class-inequality\/marshall-steinbaum-thomas-piketty-takes-ideology-inequality\">http:\/\/bostonreview.net\/class-inequality\/marshall-steinbaum-thomas-piketty-takes-ideology-inequality<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The dominant narrative in the aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis portrayed dysfunction in Washington as the result of political polarization\u2014a clash between the well-meaning liberalism of Barack Obama\u2019s administration and Republican obstructionism in Congress. Piketty suggested a counter-narrative: everything happening in Washington, on both sides of the political aisle, was part of the same elite agenda\u2014to roll back the New Deal and give capital free rein\u00a0to go wherever it wanted without fear of taxes or regulation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe market and competition, profits and wages, capital and debt, skilled and unskilled workers, natives and aliens, tax havens and competitiveness\u2014none of these things exist as such,\u201d Piketty insists. \u201cAll are social and historical constructs\u201d that \u201cdepend entirely\u201d on the \u201csystems that people choose to adopt and the conceptual definitions they choose to work with.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In his sweeping new history, the economist systematically demolishes the conceit that extreme inequality is our destiny, rather than our choice. MARSHALL STEINBAUM, Boston Review, 2020\/3\/25 http:\/\/bostonreview.net\/class-inequality\/marshall-steinbaum-thomas-piketty-takes-ideology-inequality The dominant narrative in the aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis portrayed dysfunction in Washington as the result of political polarization\u2014a clash between the well-meaning liberalism of Barack [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reflections","category-international-economics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rchss.sinica.edu.tw\/wwchu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4761","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rchss.sinica.edu.tw\/wwchu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rchss.sinica.edu.tw\/wwchu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rchss.sinica.edu.tw\/wwchu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rchss.sinica.edu.tw\/wwchu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4761"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rchss.sinica.edu.tw\/wwchu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4761\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4762,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rchss.sinica.edu.tw\/wwchu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4761\/revisions\/4762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rchss.sinica.edu.tw\/wwchu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rchss.sinica.edu.tw\/wwchu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rchss.sinica.edu.tw\/wwchu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}