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This short concluding essay reflects on the application of ideas about capital accumulation and inequality to the societies of classical antiquity, and the relevance of Greco-Roman antiquity to the broader study of capital and inequality.
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Piketty, T. (2022). Afterword: Capital, from Antiquity to the Twenty-First Century. In: Koedijk, M., Morley, N. (eds) Capital in Classical Antiquity. Palgrave Studies in Ancient Economies. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-93834-5_15
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