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Thomas Piketty en Amérique

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Nicolas Barreyre
Nicolas Barreyre*
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Centre d’études nord-américaines – EHESS
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Résumé

Cet essai propose une lecture du Capital au XXIe siècle, avec une perspective ancrée dans les États-Unis au XIXe siècle. Il explore certaines des pistes que le livre de Thomas Piketty et sa réception américaine suggèrent pour repenser l’histoire de la jeune république, et en tire en retour des éléments pour prolonger et infléchir ses conclusions, notamment sur le rôle du politique dans les processus au coeur de l’analyse de l’accroissement des inégalités dans le capitalisme moderne.

Abstract

Abstract

This essay proposes a reading of Capital in the Twenty-First Century from a perspective rooted in the nineteenth-century United States. It explores some of the ways that Thomas Piketty's book and its American reception could lead to a reconceptualization of US history. In a feedback loop, such an exploration suggests elements that extend and qualify some of Piketty's conclusions, especially on the role of politics in the central processes responsible for the growing inequalities in modern capitalism.

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Lire Le capital de Thomas Piketty
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Annales. Histoire, Sciences Sociales , Volume 70 , Issue 1 , March 2015 , pp. 115 - 124
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Copyright © Les Éditions de l’EHESS 2015

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