“All men are born and remain free and equal,” states the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and Citizens signed in 1789 and ratified by the United Nations in 1948.
French economist Thomas Piketty, author of the famous The Capital the XXI Century (with two and a half million copies sold worldwide) delivers a thorough and devastating exploration of the egalitarian illusion in his last book just published in France: Capital et idéologie [Capital and ideology].
As his previous, this work consists of 1,200 pages, it is based on the history of the world and a renewed way of using statistics to offer a dizzying journey from the present to the origins of inequalities. Wherever you look, whatever the time and the political regime, inequality is a constant throughout human history whose principle or justification responds, according to Thomas Piketty, to an "ideology."
