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Accumulating Capital: Capital and Ideology after Capital in the Twenty-First Century

Published/Copyright: June 17, 2021
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Analyse & Kritik
From the journal Analyse & Kritik Volume 43 Issue 1

Abstract

Thomas Piketty’s blockbuster Capital in the Twenty-First Century was followed by the publication of Capital and Ideology in early 2020. This paper looks at the differences between the two books, and provides an analysis and a critique of the main advances in the new book. First, Piketty drops r>g as an explanation for rising inequality. Instead, inequality is generated and constrained by economic power supported by an ideology. Second, there is a focus on the political consequences of inequality, including the rise of right-wing populism and the election of people like Donald Trump. Third, there is a new policy proposal-changes in corporate governance that gives labor and government seats on the Board of Directors of public corporations.

Keywords: Piketty; inequality; voting Behavior; meritocracy; populism; corporate governance
Published Online: 2021-06-17
Published in Print: 2021-06-01

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Articles in the same Issue

  1. Title
  2. Contents
  3. Editorial
  4. Symposium on Capital and Ideology
  5. Accumulating Capital: Capital and Ideology after Capital in the Twenty-First Century
  6. Ideology and Institutions in the Evolution of Capital
  7. Is More Mittelstand the Answer? Firm Size and the Crisis of Democratic Capitalism
  8. Tensions in Piketty’s Participatory Socialism: Reconciling Justice and Democracy
  9. Justice, Power, and Participatory Socialism: on Piketty’s Capital and Ideology
  10. More Lessons to Learn: Thomas Piketty’s Capital and Ideology and Alternative Archives of Social Experience
  11. About Capital, Socialism and Ideology
  12. General Part
  13. The Role of Culture in Evolutionary Theories of Human Cooperation
  14. Discussion: Jonathan Birch, Toolmaking and the Origin of Normative Cognition
  15. The Skilful Origins of Human Normative Cognition
  16. If Skill is Normative, Then Norms are Everywhere
  17. Norms Require Not Just Technical Skill and Social Learning, but Real Cooperation
  18. The Skill Hypothesis: A Variant
  19. Normative Guidance, Evaluative Guidance, and Skill
  20. Refining the Skill Hypothesis: Replies to Andrews/Westra, Tomasello, Sterelny, and Railton
https://doi.org/10.1515/auk-2021-0002
Keywords for this article
Piketty; inequality; voting Behavior; meritocracy; populism; corporate governance

Articles in the same Issue

  1. Title
  2. Contents
  3. Editorial
  4. Symposium on Capital and Ideology
  5. Accumulating Capital: Capital and Ideology after Capital in the Twenty-First Century
  6. Ideology and Institutions in the Evolution of Capital
  7. Is More Mittelstand the Answer? Firm Size and the Crisis of Democratic Capitalism
  8. Tensions in Piketty’s Participatory Socialism: Reconciling Justice and Democracy
  9. Justice, Power, and Participatory Socialism: on Piketty’s Capital and Ideology
  10. More Lessons to Learn: Thomas Piketty’s Capital and Ideology and Alternative Archives of Social Experience
  11. About Capital, Socialism and Ideology
  12. General Part
  13. The Role of Culture in Evolutionary Theories of Human Cooperation
  14. Discussion: Jonathan Birch, Toolmaking and the Origin of Normative Cognition
  15. The Skilful Origins of Human Normative Cognition
  16. If Skill is Normative, Then Norms are Everywhere
  17. Norms Require Not Just Technical Skill and Social Learning, but Real Cooperation
  18. The Skill Hypothesis: A Variant
  19. Normative Guidance, Evaluative Guidance, and Skill
  20. Refining the Skill Hypothesis: Replies to Andrews/Westra, Tomasello, Sterelny, and Railton
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