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Chronicles

On Our Troubled Times

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Chronicles

By: Thomas Piketty
Narrated by: Charlie Anson
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Penguin presents the unabridged, downloadbale, audiobook edition of Chronicles: On Our Troubled Times by Thomas Piketty, read by Charlie Anson.

The return of the best-selling, award-winning economist extraordinaire

With the same powerful evidence, and range of reference, as his global bestseller Capital in the Twenty-First Century - and in columns of 700 words, rather than 700 pages - Chronicles sets out Thomas Piketty's analysis of the financial crisis, what has happened since and where we should go from here.

Tackling a wider range of subjects than in Capital, from productivity in Britain to Barack Obama, it comprises the very best of his writing for Liberation from the past ten years. Now, translated into English for the first time, it will further cement Piketty's reputation as the world's leading thinker today.

 Economic History Economics Politics & Government Theory Capitalism Taxation Socialism Banking Economic disparity US Economy Economic Inequality

Critic Reviews

The questions explored in these brilliant essays cut to the heart of our failing economic and democratic systems. If you have been influenced by Piketty's landmark work on inequality, make sure to read this next. (Naomi Klein, author of 'This Changes Everything' and 'The Shock Doctrine')
Piketty has transformed our economic discourse. We'll never talk about wealth and inequality the same way we used to (Paul Krugman)
Amazing, inspiring, forward-thinking, and pragmatic. There is a pattern forming -- Marx, Keynes, Piketty. As our world changes the surest explanations and most practical solutions change in turn (Professor Danny Dorling, University of Oxford)
The most important work of political economy to be published in decades (Nick Pearce (on 'Capital in the Twenty-First Century'))
Piketty's treatment of inequality is perfectly matched to its moment ... [He] has emerged as a rock star of the policy-intellectual world ... His work richly deserves all the attention it is receiving (Lawrence H. Summers)
The author, an inequality expert, is distinguished. The work is acclaimed. The book's empirical detail is already the stuff of legend (Karl Smith (on 'Capital in the Twenty-First Century'))
Piketty's economic analysis and historical proofs are breathtaking (Robert B Reich (on 'Capital in the Twenty-First Century'))
French economist Thomas Piketty has written an extraordinarily important book. Open-minded readers will surely find themselves unable to ignore the evidence and arguments he has brought to bear (Martin Wolf (on 'Capital in the Twenty-First Century'))
Capital has enraptured the left and infuriated the right
The strength of Piketty's book is his close attention to the different sources of inequality, the massive documentation underpinning his history and conclusions, and his impressive culls from sociology and literature, which exhibit the richness of 'political economy' compared to its thin mathematical successor that has attained such prominence. [...] Piketty's book is a timely intervention in the current debate about inequality and its causes (Lord Robert Skidelsky on 'Capital')
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