Is the solution to problems of global inequality more ‘world government’? This remedy lies at the heart of the policy prescriptions in the book by French Economist Thomas Piketty, "Capital in the Twenty-First Century", which is taking the world by storm according to The Economist (Read summary here).
The international numbers for global inequality are shocking and Piketty puts them into useful historic context. But his prescriptions are, as a friend put it: “global government, global taxation and uber socialism or, in old terms, ‘communism’ in a nice suit”. After the European parliamentary elections this debate will really take off…
The international numbers for global inequality are shocking and Piketty puts them into useful historic context. But his prescriptions are, as a friend put it: “global government, global taxation and uber socialism or, in old terms, ‘communism’ in a nice suit”. After the European parliamentary elections this debate will really take off…
