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Ewan McGaughey, « From ‘Capital and Ideology’ to ‘Democracy and Evidence’: A Review of Thomas Piketty », Œconomia, ID : 10.4000/oeconomia.10580
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1. The Main Argument In Capital and Ideology, Thomas Piketty’s positive argument is that societies use ideology to justify (otherwise unjustified) inequality. In an ongoing cycle, inequality then feeds ideology. Ideology (which is not always based on reason and evidence) tends to be a “range of contradictory discourses”. These discourses create a “dominant narrative”. The narrative leads to rules. The rules bolster inequality (1). And inequality generates more ideology (3-4). “We live in an e...