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Chronicles

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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.

Critics Review

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
New York Review of Books
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
New Statesman
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
Democracy
The author, an inequality expert, is distinguished. The work is acclaimed. The book's empirical detail is already the stuff of legend
Financial Times blog Alphaville
Piketty's economic analysis and historical proofs are breathtaking
Guardian
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
Financial Times
Capital has enraptured the left and infuriated the right
The Economist
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
Prospect
Author Thomas Piketty
Narrator Charlie Anson
Duration 4 hours and 18 minutes
Release Date
ISBN 9780241977194
Format Audiobook
Publisher Penguin Books Ltd
Genre Economic and financial crises and disasters, Economic history, Economic theory and philosophy, Monetary economics, Political economy, Popular economics
Availability AU, GB, IE

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