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Economics · 13 min

Capital's Unseen Hand: Unpacking Inequality's Deep Logic

By Thomas Piketty

Exploring Thomas Piketty's "Capital in the Twenty-First Century," this episode uncovers the fundamental economic forces that drive wealth concentration and inequality, examining how societal choices shape our economic destiny.

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“Exploring Thomas Piketty's "Capital in the Twenty-First Century," this episode uncovers the fundamental economic forces that drive wealth concentration and inequality, examining how societal choices shape our economic destiny.”

— Thomas Piketty, Capital's Unseen Hand: Unpacking Inequality's Deep Logic

What it is about

wealth, inequality, capital

Who it is for

This is for anyone who senses the rules of the economy are tilted but lacks the framework to see how, offering a powerful, data-driven model for understanding how wealth is truly generated, concentrated, and passed down through generations.

The author

Economist Thomas Piketty transformed the global conversation on inequality by assembling centuries of tax and wealth data to reveal the fundamental, long-term dynamics of capital accumulation.

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Thomas Piketty

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