Thomas Piketty: “The Labour Party is too conservative”
The French economist reflects on a decade since the publication of Capital in the Twenty-First Century.
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Gavin Jacobson is senior commissioning editor at the New Statesman.
The French economist reflects on a decade since the publication of Capital in the Twenty-First Century.
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