Capital and Ideology.

Piketty largely leaves war and war finance out of his account, and his extensive discussion of property and the French Revolution amazingly omits the I assignat i inflation. Piketty has a simple historical answer for the nineteenth century - because voting was constructed to be dependent on income or wealth (what Piketty calls a "censitary" suffrage). I Capital and Ideology i is more difficult to summarize than I Capital in the Twenty-First Century i , although the bottom line is still clear and obvious: Ideology matters; it is indeed decisive in shaping the outcome that Piketty described in the 2013 book. [Extracted from the article]

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