The 2020 Michel Serres Distinguised Lecture with Thomas Piketty
Speaker(s): Thomas Piketty (School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences; Paris School of Economics; London School of Economics)
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The Department of French and Italian presents The 2020 Michel Serres Distinguished Lecture with special guest Thomas Piketty, author and French economist, who will talk about his recent book, "Capital and Ideology".
Thomas Piketty teaches at the 脡cole des Hautes 脡tudes en Sciences Sociales and at the 脡cole d鈥櫭塩onomie de Paris, and is Centennial Professor at the International Inequalities Institute of London School of Economics. His book, Capital in the Twenty-First Century (2014), which sold over 2.5 million books worldwide, provides a historical account of inequality in the past two centuries across Western Europe, the US, and Japan. A New York Time鈥檚 Best Seller, Capital in the Twenty-First Century has laid the foundations for contemporary debate on the origins of income and wealth inequality. His latest book, Capital and Ideology (2020), examines the justification of inequality regimes at a global scale, spanning the West, India, Brazil, over several centuries. His analysis of the ideological foundation of wealth inequalities leads Piketty to argue for a new 鈥減articipatory鈥 socialism, a system founded on an ideology of equality, social property, education, and the sharing of knowledge and power.
Free and open to the public
Sponsored by the Department of French and Italian, the Division of Literatures, Cultures and Languages, the France-素人色情片 Center, The Europe Center, and the McCoy Family Center for Ethics in Society at 素人色情片.