Book recommendation from #Ni3Centre IAG Chair, Mikael Barfod. Thomas Piketty’s “A Brief History of Equality” (translated from French by Steven Randall), Belknap Press of @harvardpress, 2022. “Even if you are not interested in social policies, let alone economic history I’m afraid you must read this book. The 300 pages book is easy to read for those who have no background in social sciences but who want to understand a lot more about the world they live in. The triumph of social democracy in the 20th-century West makes Piketty optimistic that humanity can overcome growing inequalities from the 1980s. With the right policies we can again enter a stage of increasing equality. Piketty sets forth in “A Brief History of Equality” one of the most comprehensive and clear social democratic programs available anywhere. His proposals include public financing of elections, transnational assemblies to complement national legislatures, a global tax on all individual fortunes (above $10 million), involvement of workers in the management of large enterprises, and the revision of global treaties to ensure that the international circulation of capital will enhance rather than hamper the pursuit of key goals such as reducing greenhouse gases and easing economic inequality between the Global North and the Global South. I often deal with issues related to inequality in a wide sense and thanks to this book, which summarises other books by the same author we now have a comprehensive historical perspective of inequality as well as an interesting proposal for how to enter a more equal, just, peaceful, prosperous and sustainable future.” #GenderEquality #bookrecommendation #Ni3Centre #HarvardPress #BelknapPress