Here’s a quick summary of the philosophical problems with Capital in the 21st Century, with links substantiating these claims. Increasing inequalities of income and wealth are problematic from a moral…
In this post, I will review Piketty’s democratic control argument, which holds that increasing wealth and income inequality make democratic control over society difficult, if not impossible, and that a…
We come to the normative argument that Piketty regards as the most important: that the great and increasing amount of wealth inequality is too easy to hide and so makes…
Eric Schliesser has written a thoughtful and even-handed criticism of my post on Piketty and social stability. Eric is worried that I did not focus enough on the fact that simple…
In my last post, I claimed that Piketty offers four evaluative and four prescriptive arguments in Capital in the 21st Century. In this post, I will reconstruct and examine claims…
This is the first in five posts that subject the normative claims in Thomas Piketty’s Capital in the 21st Century to critical scrutiny. There have been many, many criticisms of his…