Nature, Culture, and Inequality

“A readable introduction to Piketty’s worldview.” —Kirkus Reviews

“Through his seminal works, Piketty has become a beacon for those seeking to comprehend and combat economic inequity. He’s not just an economist, he’s also a visionary whose ideas inspire a new generation to debate and shape a (much) more equitable future.” —Rutger Bregman, author of Humankind and Utopia For Realists

“In a hundred engaging and easy-to-read pages, Thomas Piketty paints a vivid portrait of economic inequality’s many faces—as it relates to income, wealth, gender, education, taxation, inheritance, debt, and climate change. Throughout, Piketty documents the collective choices that have charted inequality’s past path in order to challenge democratic politics to build a more equal future. If you have one hour to devote to thinking about economic inequality today, spend it with this book.” —Daniel Markovits, author of The Meritocracy Trap

“Nature, Culture, and Inequality is a clear, incisive examination of one of the world’s major economic problems—extreme income and wealth inequality. In this short, readable volume, Thomas Piketty explains how extreme inequality hurts millions of people worldwide and why some nations have far worse inequality than others. Piketty also makes the case that the high levels of inequality in countries like the United States are not part of the natural order and can—and should—be greatly reduced to create fairer economies for all.” —Steven Greenhouse, author of Beaten Down, Worked Up: The Past, Present, and Future of American Labor

“This brilliant little book distills years of world-class research on inequality into a punchy argument with wonderful insights on every page. For anyone interested in the problem of inequality and how to solve it, this is the perfect place to start.” —Jason Hickel, author of The Divide and Less Is More

Praise for Capital in the Twenty-First Century:

“The magnum opus of the French economist…will be the most important economics book of the year—and maybe of the decade.” —Paul Krugman, New York Times

“Monumental…one of the most thorough and illuminating studies of capitalist economics since Karl Marx published the original Capital 150 years earlier.” —Washington Post

“Piketty has written a book that nobody interested in a defining issue of our era can afford to ignore.” —The New Yorker