In my last Piketty post, I outlined Piketty’s arguments 2E and 2P, namely that patrimonial capitalism generates unjustified inequalities and that a global capital tax will contain those inequalities in…
This is the third, though much delayed, post in a series that explain a little of what I try to do in my recent book, Toleration. The first post is…
I will address Piketty’s arguments that patrimonial capital generates unjust inequalities and that a global wealth tax can suitably reduce those inequalities in two parts. In this post, I’ll simply…
(See the introduction to and explanation of this series of posts.) Well, that was disappointing. Michael Walzer is the most important living American political theorist, and among the most important…
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…
One of the resolutions I’ve set for myself this summer is to read a lot of articles from the Annual Review of Political Science, which is very different from the…