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Thomas Piketty

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“Feel very close to the sort of philosophical or political thought tradition you are referring to because my work has mostly consisted of trying to collect this historical data sources and then of course to propose some interpretation of these data sources but I feel I've always been sort of very close to my sources or this is what kept me busy you know 95% of my time for the past 25 years or so”
2022-04-20 · Conversations with Tyler · Thomas Piketty on the Politics of Equality · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“That was sort of particularly active in France, I would say, you know, between the 1930s and 1980s with people like Brodel or Lavruze, you know, and these are people who have started working on the history of the distribution of wages, for instance, during the 18th century, you know, in the period going to the French Revolution. Is the French Revolution due to the fact that wages were lagging behind, land rent? That was one of the big questions that these people were asking. And, you know, in a way, what I've been doing is to try to pursue this tradition in social and economic history with also a strong influence from Anglo-Saxon research in this area, Cusnets, Atkinson, and there's a long tradition also of British and US historians and economists and social scientists trying to collect this kind of income and history. That's what I've been doing.”
2022-04-20 · Conversations with Tyler · Thomas Piketty on the Politics of Equality · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Okay, this I can answer more precisely. Well, I would say first, none of the above, so I will put myself more in the tradition of the Annal school. I don't know if this rings the bell for you or not, but the tradition of research in social and economic history.”
2022-04-20 · Conversations with Tyler · Thomas Piketty on the Politics of Equality · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Know maybe that's right, maybe that's wrong. I don't know what's the metric for this. I'm not sure, you know, frankly, I never thought of that before”
2022-04-20 · Conversations with Tyler · Thomas Piketty on the Politics of Equality · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“You know, I have never thought about this, but maybe you're right. I had never heard of this before. So you're saying the diversity of dressing codes is less extensive in Paris than in Berlin or the European Union.”
2022-04-20 · Conversations with Tyler · Thomas Piketty on the Politics of Equality · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“are not over you know they continue during the 19th century 20th century with the end of slavery the end of colonialism the rise of social security the rise of progressive taxation but in France just like in the US you know there is still a lot of discrimination today you know there is still a lot of gender inequality today there is still a lot of political inequality you know in access to voice access to participation political power there's still enormous concentration of wealth you know to some extent this has increased especially in the US in recent decades less so in France or in Europe so you know in the long run you know there's a movement toward more equality but you know I'm not saying this to conclude that you know everything is great and I'm saying this in order also to suggest that you know this movement could and should continue and I think it will continue because in the end this is”
2022-04-20 · Conversations with Tyler · Thomas Piketty on the Politics of Equality · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“education in health over the long run. Now this has not been a steady process, this is an evolution toward more equality that has taken place through political mobilization, social struggles. And the story I'm telling is really a story where the movement toward more equality starts at the end of the 18th century. So typically in the case of France with the French Revolution, the abolition of aristocratic privileges, the slave revolt also in Saint-Domain, which these two events, you know, the abolition of aristocratic privileges and the slave revolt in Saint-Demargue are sort of the beginning of the end of aristocratic societies, societies based on privileges and slave and colonial societies on the other.”
2022-04-20 · Conversations with Tyler · Thomas Piketty on the Politics of Equality · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“As I stress in my new book, A Brief History of Equality, there's been a long-run movement toward more equality in history and together with a movement toward more economic prosperity. And I argue that the two movements really came together. And France is part of this movement. So, you know, each country has its own limitations, its own hypocrisies with equality and inequality. And France has lots of limitation, lots of hypocrisy in the way to deal with very unequal access to, for instance, different funding in higher education or a lot of discrimination that is not well addressed. But by and large, if I take a sort of big picture and look in the long run, there's been a movement toward more equality of income, more equality of wealth, more equality in access to political power, more equality in access to”
2022-04-20 · Conversations with Tyler · Thomas Piketty on the Politics of Equality · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source