An edition of Why save the bankers?
(2016)
Why save the bankers?
and other essays on our economic and political crisis
by Thomas Piketty
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Shares incisive commentary on the financial meltdown and its aftermath, counseling democratic societies on how to avoid the practices that have led to unregulated markets and economic inequality.
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Politics and government, Monetary policy, Financial crises, Economic policy, Economic conditions, Global Financial Crisis, 2008-2009, Central Banks and banking, Banks and banking, central, Monetary policy, europe, Europe, economic policy, Europe, economic conditions, Europe, politics and government, 21st century, Economic history, Global Financial Crisis (2008-2009) fast (OCoLC)fst01755654Places
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Why Save the Bankers?: And Other Essays on Our Economic and Political Crisis
Apr 04, 2017, Mariner Books
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Why save the bankers?: and other essays on our economic and political crisis
2016
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Why Save the Bankers?: And Other Essays on Our Economic and Political Crisis
2016, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Trade & Reference Publishers
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Book Details
Table of Contents
Why save the bankers?
A trillion dollars
Obama and FDR: a misleading analogy
Profits, wages, and inequality
The Irish disaster
Central banks at work
Forgotten inequalities
Mysteries of the carbon tax
Lessons for the tax system from the Bettencourt affair
Enough of GDP, let's go back to national income
Down with idiotic taxes!
Who will be the winners of the crisis?
With or without a platform?
Record bank profits: a matter of politics
No, the Greeks aren't lazy
Europe against the markets
Rethinking central banks
Does Liliane Bettencourt pay taxes?
Toward a calm debate on the wealth tax
Should we fear the Fed?
The scandal of the Irish bank bailout
Japan: private wealth, public debts
Greece: for a European bank tax
Poor as jobs
Rethinking the European project
and fast
Protectionism: a useful weapon ... For lack of anything better
Francois Hollande, a new Roosevelt for Europe?
Federalism: the only solution
The what and why of federalism
Action, fast!
Merkhollande and the Eurozone: shortsighted selfishness
The Italian elections: Europe's responsibility
For a European wealth tax
Slavery: reparations through transparency
A new Europe to overcome the crisis
Can growth save us?
IMF: still a ways to go!
Libé: what does it mean to be free?
On oligarchy in America
To the polls, citizens!
The exorbitant cost of being a small country
Capital in Hong Kong?
Capital according to Carlos Fuentes
2015: what shocks can get Europe moving?
Spreading the democratic revolution to the rest of Europe
The double hardship of the working class
Must debts always be paid back?
A crackdown alone will solve nothing.
Edition Notes
Includes index.
Translations of essays that originally appeared in the French newspapers Libération and Le Monde.
Translated from the French.
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