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Thomas Piketty, A Brief History of Inequality

Belknap Press, 2022, 272 pp., ISBN: 978-0674273559

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  1. https://www.nytimes.com/live/2023/01/06/us/house-speaker-vote-mccarthy.

  2. Thomas Piketty, Capital in the Twenty-First Century, (Harvard University Press, 2014).

  3. Thomas Piketty Capital and Ideology, (Harvard University Press, 2020).

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  5. Kenneth Pomeranz, The Great Divergence: China, Europe, and the Making of the World Economy, (Princeton University Press, 2000).

  6. Mark Koyama and Jared Rubin, How the World Became Rich: The Historical Origins of Economic Growth, (Polity Press, London) p. 213.

  7. Pomeranz, op.cit., citation from page 4.

  8. Sebastian Mallaby, The Power Law: Venture Capital and the Making of the New Future, (Penguin Books, 2022).

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Seabright, P. Thomas Piketty, A Brief History of Inequality. Soc 60, 114–117 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12115-023-00807-2

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