Why Save the Bankers?: And Other Essays on Our Economic and Political Crisis

by Thomas Piketty

Book Overview

Incisive commentary on the financial meltdown and its aftermath, from the author of the bestselling global phenomenon Capital in the Twenty-First Century Thomas Piketty's work has proved that unfettered markets lead to increasing inequality. Without meaningful regulation, capitalist economies will concentrate wealth in an ever smaller number of hands. Armed with this knowledge, democratic societies face a defining challenge: fending off a new aristocracy...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0544663322
• ISBN13: 9780544663329
• Release Date: April 2016
• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.82 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.7" x 8.3"