Chronicles : on our troubled times / Thomas Piketty ; translated from the French and annotated by Seth Ackerman.
Language: English Original language: French Publication details: UK : Viking, 2016.Description: x, 181 pages ; 22 cmISBN:- 9780241234914 (paperback)
- 0241234913 (paperback)
- Economics -- 21st century
- Capitalism -- 21st century
- Economic history -- 21st century
- Financial crises -- Europe
- Global Financial Crisis, 2008-2009
- Banks and banking, Central -- Europe
- Monetary policy -- Europe
- Europe -- Economic policy
- Europe -- Economic conditions -- 21st century
- Europe -- Politics and government -- 21st century
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- HB3782 .P54 2016
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| Book | Melbourne Athenaeum Library | Non-Fiction | 330 PIK | Available | 064672 |
Originally published as Why save the bankers? : United States : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016.
"Portions of this book were previously published in Peut-on sauver l'Europe? and will be published in Chroniques 2012-2016"--Title page verso.
Includes index.
Includes index.
I. WHY SAVE THE BANKERS? : 2008-10. Why save the bankers? ; A trillion dollars ; Obama and FDR: a misleading analogy ; Profits, wages, and inequality ; The Irish disaster ; Central banks at work ; Forgotten inequalities ; Mysteries of the carbon tax ; Lessons for the tax system from the Bettencourt affair ; Enough of GDP, let's go back to national income ; Down with idiotic taxes! ; Who will be the winners of the crisis? ; With or without a platform? ; Record bank profits: a matter of politics -- II. NO, THE GREEKS AREN'T LAZY : 2010-12. No, the Greeks aren't lazy ; Europe against the markets ; Rethinking central banks ; Does Liliane Bettencourt pay taxes? ; Toward a calm debate on the wealth tax ; Should we fear the Fed? ; The scandal of the Irish bank bailout ; Japan: private wealth, public debts ; Greece: for a European bank tax ; Poor as jobs ; Rethinking the European project--and fast ; Protectionism: a useful weapon ... For lack of anything better ; Francois Hollande, a new Roosevelt for Europe? ; Federalism: the only solution ; The what and why of federalism -- III. ACTION, FAST! : 2012-15. Action, fast! ; Merkhollande and the Eurozone: shortsighted selfishness ; The Italian elections: Europe's responsibility ; For a European wealth tax ; Slavery: reparations through transparency ; A new Europe to overcome the crisis ; Can growth save us? ; imf: still a ways to go! ; Libé: what does it mean to be free? ; On oligarchy in America ; To the polls, citizens! ; The exorbitant cost of being a small country ; Capital in Hong Kong? ; Capital according to Carlos Fuentes ; 2015: what shocks can get Europe moving? ; Spreading the democratic revolution to the rest of Europe ; The double hardship of the working class ; Must debts always be paid back? ; A crackdown alone will solve nothing.
The return of the best-selling, award-winning economist extraordinaire. With the same powerful evidence and range of reference as his global best seller Capital in the Twenty-First Century, Chronicles sets out Thomas Piketty's analysis of the financial crisis, what has happened since and where we should go from here. Tackling a wider range of subjects than in Capital, from productivity in Britain to Barack Obama, it comprises the very best of his writing for Liberation from the past 10 years. Now, translated into English for the first time, it will further cement Piketty's reputation as the world's leading thinker today.
