Is inequality a natural phenomenon? Thomas Piketty argues it isn’t – and proposes a way forward
- Written by Christopher Pollard, Sessional Academic in Sociology and Philosophy, Deakin University
Thomas Piketty.Fronteiras do Pensamento, via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SAThomas Piketty’s Nature, Culture, and Inequality is a little book that addresses an issue of great significance: is the social inequality we observe every day natural?
Drawing on historical economic data from around the world, Piketty describes a tendency since the late...





