Capital, ideologia e uma história do mundo sob o prisma da desigualdade

Abstract

After releasing Capital au XXIe siècle in 2013, economist Thomas Piketty has become the world's best-known inequality researcher. For although many criticisms were directed at theoretical points in his work, there was, in general, positive consideration for the author's voluminous empirical work, who made a great effort to treat data on income and property from different countries, and presented clear evidence from distributive worsenings in central nations to the capitalist system at least since the 1980s.