Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Long Live Socialism! 1
4. Toward a Different Globalization, 2016–2017
5. Hillary, Apple, and Us 29
6. The IMF, the Inequality Debate, and Economic Research 33
7. The French Right and the European Budgetary Rules 43
8. Gender Pay Inequality: 19% or 64%? 47
9. Agenda for Another Globalization 50
10. Basic Income or Fair Wage? 54
11. The Passing of Anthony B. Atkinson 58
12. On Productivity in France and in Germany 62
13. Long Live Populism! 84
14. On Inequality in China 88
15. For a Democratic Eurozone Government 92
16. Public Capital, Private Capital 95
17. What Would a Democratic Eurozone Assembly Look Like? 99
18. What Reforms for France? 2017–2018
19. Inequality in France 113
20. What Reforms for France? 117
21. Reagan to the Power of Ten 121
22. Will Macron’s Marchers Take Power? 125
23. The CICE Comedy 134
24. Rethinking the Capital Code 138
25. Suppression of the Wealth Tax: A Historical Error 142
26. Budget 2018: French Youth Sacrificed 147
27. The Catalan Syndrome 154
28. Trump, Macron: Same Fight 159
29. 2018: The Year of Europe 163
30. Parcoursup: Could Do Better 168
31. Toward a Union in the Union 173
32. Capital in Russia 178
33. May 1968 and Inequality 182
34. The Transferunion Fantasy 186
35. Europe, Migrants, and Trade 190
36. Social-Nativism: The Italian Nightmare 195
37. Brazil: The First Republic under Threat 200
38. Le Monde and the Billionaires 204
39. To Love Europe Is to Change It, 2018–2020
40. Manifesto for the Democratization of Europe 211
41. Yellow Vests and Tax Justice 217
42. 1789: The Return of the Debt 222
43. Wealth Tax in America 226
44. To Love Europe Is to Change It 231
45. Basic Income in India 235
46. Europe and the Class Cleavage 240
47. The Illusion of Centrist Ecology 244
48. Will Money Creation Save Us? 249
49. What Is a Fair Pension System? 253
50. Toward a Circular Economy 257
51. Surpassing Identity Conflict via Economic Justice 262
52. Several Universal Retirement Schemes Are Possible 267
53. After the Climate Denial, the Inequality Denial 272
54. Social-Federalism vs. National-Liberalism 276
55. The Franco-German Assembly, a Unique Opportunity for Tax Justice in Europe 281
56. Sanders to the Aid of Democracy in the United States 286
57. Avoiding the Worst 291
58. The Age of Green Money 296
59. Confronting Racism, Repairing History 301
60. Reconstructing Internationalism 305
61. The Fall of the U.S. Idol, 2020–2021
62. Can the Left Unite on Europe? 313
63. What to Do with Covid Debt 317
64. Global Inequalities: Where Do We Stand? 321
65. The Fall of the U.S. Idol 329
66. Index 335