Chronicles: on our troubled times Piketty, Thomas

Table of Contents:

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
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 Hollander, a new Roosevelt for Europe?
Federalism: the only solution
The what and why of federalism

III. CAN GROWTH SAVE US? 2012-15

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!
Libel: 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?
Secularism and Inequality: The French Hypocrisy
For an Open Europe
Capital in South Africa
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.
Shares incisive commentary on the financial meltdown and its aftermath, counselling democratic societies on how to avoid the practices that have led to unregulated markets and economic inequality.

Translated from the French and annotated by Seth Ackerman

(https://www.penguin.com.au/products/9780241234914/chronicles-our-troubled-times)