This mode of analysis is also different from most approaches in mainstream economics, in which explanations for developments of inequality are often naturalized and, thereby, depoliticized.Īccording to Piketty, inequality regimes––the conceptual framework of his analysis––provide different answers to two fundamental questions of political communities: How is property organized? And how are borders––be they national, social, or bureaucratic––defined? In the twentieth century, Piketty diagnoses three major inequality regimes. Again and again, the author insists that at different points in time, several political pathways would have been possible. Piketty’s history of inequalities, in contrast, takes a different position: there is always an alternative. In Marxist approaches, the “history of class struggles” is usually connected to a deterministic view of history. In his new book “Capital and Ideology,” Thomas Piketty provides a history of inequalities. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2020.
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