A New York Times Bestseller
An NPR Best Book of the Year

The epic successor to one of the most important books of the century: at once a retelling of global history, a scathing critique of contemporary politics, and a bold proposal for a new and fairer economic system.

Thomas Piketty’s bestselling Capital in the Twenty-First Century galvanized global debate about inequality. In this audacious follow-up, Piketty challenges us to revolutionize how we think about politics, ideology, and history. He exposes the ideas that have sustained inequality for the past millennium, reveals why the shallow politics of right and left are failing us today, and outlines the structure of a fairer economic system.

Our economy, Piketty observes, is not a natural fact. Markets, profits, and capital are all historical constructs that depend on choices. Piketty explores the material and ideological interactions of conflicting social groups that have given us slavery, serfdom, colonialism, communism, and hypercapitalism, shaping the lives of billions. He concludes that the great driver of human progress over the centuries has been the struggle for equality and education and not, as often argued, the assertion of property rights or the pursuit of stability. The new era of extreme inequality that has derailed that progress since the 1980s, he shows, is partly a reaction against communism, but it is also the fruit of ignorance, intellectual specialization, and our drift toward the dead-end politics of identity.

Once we understand this, we can begin to envision a more balanced approach to economics and politics. Piketty argues for a new “participatory” socialism, a system founded on an ideology of equality, social property, education, and the sharing of knowledge and power. Capital and Ideology is destined to be one of the indispensable books of our time, a work that will not only help us understand the world, but that will change it.

A New York Times #1 Bestseller
An Amazon #1 Bestseller
A Wall Street Journal #1 Bestseller
A USA Today Bestseller
A Sunday Times Bestseller
A Guardian Best Book of the 21st Century
Winner of the Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award
Winner of the British Academy Medal
Finalist, National Book Critics Circle Award

What are the grand dynamics that drive the accumulation and distribution of capital? Questions about the long-term evolution of inequality, the concentration of wealth, and the prospects for economic growth lie at the heart of political economy. But satisfactory answers have been hard to find for lack of adequate data and clear guiding theories. In Capital in the Twenty-First Century, Thomas Piketty analyzes a unique collection of data from twenty countries, ranging as far back as the eighteenth century, to uncover key economic and social patterns. His findings will transform debate and set the agenda for the next generation of thought about wealth and inequality.

Piketty shows that modern economic growth and the diffusion of knowledge have allowed us to avoid inequalities on the apocalyptic scale predicted by Karl Marx. But we have not modified the deep structures of capital and inequality as much as we thought in the optimistic decades following World War II. The main driver of inequality—the tendency of returns on capital to exceed the rate of economic growth—today threatens to generate extreme inequalities that stir discontent and undermine democratic values. But economic trends are not acts of God. Political action has curbed dangerous inequalities in the past, Piketty says, and may do so again.

A work of extraordinary ambition, originality, and rigor, Capital in the Twenty-First Century reorients our understanding of economic history and confronts us with sobering lessons for today.

A New York Times #1 Bestseller
An Amazon #1 Bestseller
A Wall Street Journal #1 Bestseller
A USA Today Bestseller
A Sunday Times Bestseller
A Guardian Best Book of the 21st Century
Winner of the Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award
Winner of the British Academy Medal
Finalist, National Book Critics Circle Award

“It seems safe to say that Capital in the Twenty-First Century, the magnum opus of the French economist Thomas Piketty, will be the most important economics book of the year—and maybe of the decade.”
—Paul Krugman, New York Times

“The book aims to revolutionize the way people think about the economic history of the past two centuries. It may well manage the feat.”
—The Economist

“Piketty’s Capital in the Twenty-First Century is an intellectual tour de force, a triumph of economic history over the theoretical, mathematical modeling that has come to dominate the economics profession in recent years.”
—Steven Pearlstein, Washington Post

“Piketty has written an extraordinarily important book…In its scale and sweep it brings us back to the founders of political economy.”
—Martin Wolf, Financial Times

“A sweeping account of rising inequality…Piketty has written a book that nobody interested in a defining issue of our era can afford to ignore.”
—John Cassidy, New Yorker

“Stands a fair chance of becoming the most influential work of economics yet published in our young century. It is the most important study of inequality in over fifty years.”
—Timothy Shenk, The Nation

This is volume 65 issue 4 of Comparative Education Review. The Comparative Education Review (CER) is the flagship journal of the Comparative and International Education Society. Its editorial team pursues greater critical engagement, interrogation and innovation in the field of comparative and international education. The journal publishes intellectually rigorous original research in both theoretical and practical applications, seeking representation across sexual, ethnic, cultural and religious diversity. Further, the editors seek to advance the field by bringing greater awareness to discourses on education across the lifespan in historically underrepresented regions, contexts, and topics. CER promotes multidisciplinary research, valuing diverse perspectives and methodologies in order to expand and transgress current ways of knowing and understanding education throughout the world. Through publishing eclectic scholarship, the CER editorial team seeks to engage a wide-ranging community of scholars, practitioners, and policy-makers.

This is volume 66 issue 1 of Comparative Education Review. The Comparative Education Review (CER) is the flagship journal of the Comparative and International Education Society. Its editorial team pursues greater critical engagement, interrogation and innovation in the field of comparative and international education. The journal publishes intellectually rigorous original research in both theoretical and practical applications, seeking representation across sexual, ethnic, cultural and religious diversity. Further, the editors seek to advance the field by bringing greater awareness to discourses on education across the lifespan in historically underrepresented regions, contexts, and topics. CER promotes multidisciplinary research, valuing diverse perspectives and methodologies in order to expand and transgress current ways of knowing and understanding education throughout the world. Through publishing eclectic scholarship, the CER editorial team seeks to engage a wide-ranging community of scholars, practitioners, and policy-makers.

This is volume 66 issue 2 of Comparative Education Review. The Comparative Education Review (CER) is the flagship journal of the Comparative and International Education Society. Its editorial team pursues greater critical engagement, interrogation and innovation in the field of comparative and international education. The journal publishes intellectually rigorous original research in both theoretical and practical applications, seeking representation across sexual, ethnic, cultural and religious diversity. Further, the editors seek to advance the field by bringing greater awareness to discourses on education across the lifespan in historically underrepresented regions, contexts, and topics. CER promotes multidisciplinary research, valuing diverse perspectives and methodologies in order to expand and transgress current ways of knowing and understanding education throughout the world. Through publishing eclectic scholarship, the CER editorial team seeks to engage a wide-ranging community of scholars, practitioners, and policy-makers.

This is volume 66 issue 3 of Comparative Education Review. The Comparative Education Review (CER) is the flagship journal of the Comparative and International Education Society. Its editorial team pursues greater critical engagement, interrogation and innovation in the field of comparative and international education. The journal publishes intellectually rigorous original research in both theoretical and practical applications, seeking representation across sexual, ethnic, cultural and religious diversity. Further, the editors seek to advance the field by bringing greater awareness to discourses on education across the lifespan in historically underrepresented regions, contexts, and topics. CER promotes multidisciplinary research, valuing diverse perspectives and methodologies in order to expand and transgress current ways of knowing and understanding education throughout the world. Through publishing eclectic scholarship, the CER editorial team seeks to engage a wide-ranging community of scholars, practitioners, and policy-makers.

This is volume 66 issue 4 of Comparative Education Review. The Comparative Education Review (CER) is the flagship journal of the Comparative and International Education Society. Its editorial team pursues greater critical engagement, interrogation and innovation in the field of comparative and international education. The journal publishes intellectually rigorous original research in both theoretical and practical applications, seeking representation across sexual, ethnic, cultural and religious diversity. Further, the editors seek to advance the field by bringing greater awareness to discourses on education across the lifespan in historically underrepresented regions, contexts, and topics. CER promotes multidisciplinary research, valuing diverse perspectives and methodologies in order to expand and transgress current ways of knowing and understanding education throughout the world. Through publishing eclectic scholarship, the CER editorial team seeks to engage a wide-ranging community of scholars, practitioners, and policy-makers.

This is volume 67 issue 1 of Comparative Education Review. The Comparative Education Review (CER) is the flagship journal of the Comparative and International Education Society. Its editorial team pursues greater critical engagement, interrogation and innovation in the field of comparative and international education. The journal publishes intellectually rigorous original research in both theoretical and practical applications, seeking representation across sexual, ethnic, cultural and religious diversity. Further, the editors seek to advance the field by bringing greater awareness to discourses on education across the lifespan in historically underrepresented regions, contexts, and topics. CER promotes multidisciplinary research, valuing diverse perspectives and methodologies in order to expand and transgress current ways of knowing and understanding education throughout the world. Through publishing eclectic scholarship, the CER editorial team seeks to engage a wide-ranging community of scholars, practitioners, and policy-makers.

This is volume 67 issue 2 of Comparative Education Review. The Comparative Education Review (CER) is the flagship journal of the Comparative and International Education Society. Its editorial team pursues greater critical engagement, interrogation and innovation in the field of comparative and international education. The journal publishes intellectually rigorous original research in both theoretical and practical applications, seeking representation across sexual, ethnic, cultural and religious diversity. Further, the editors seek to advance the field by bringing greater awareness to discourses on education across the lifespan in historically underrepresented regions, contexts, and topics. CER promotes multidisciplinary research, valuing diverse perspectives and methodologies in order to expand and transgress current ways of knowing and understanding education throughout the world. Through publishing eclectic scholarship, the CER editorial team seeks to engage a wide-ranging community of scholars, practitioners, and policy-makers.

This is volume 67 issue 3 of Comparative Education Review. The Comparative Education Review (CER) is the flagship journal of the Comparative and International Education Society. Its editorial team pursues greater critical engagement, interrogation and innovation in the field of comparative and international education. The journal publishes intellectually rigorous original research in both theoretical and practical applications, seeking representation across sexual, ethnic, cultural and religious diversity. Further, the editors seek to advance the field by bringing greater awareness to discourses on education across the lifespan in historically underrepresented regions, contexts, and topics. CER promotes multidisciplinary research, valuing diverse perspectives and methodologies in order to expand and transgress current ways of knowing and understanding education throughout the world. Through publishing eclectic scholarship, the CER editorial team seeks to engage a wide-ranging community of scholars, practitioners, and policy-makers.

This is volume 67 issue 4 of Comparative Education Review. The Comparative Education Review (CER) is the flagship journal of the Comparative and International Education Society. Its editorial team pursues greater critical engagement, interrogation and innovation in the field of comparative and international education. The journal publishes intellectually rigorous original research in both theoretical and practical applications, seeking representation across sexual, ethnic, cultural and religious diversity. Further, the editors seek to advance the field by bringing greater awareness to discourses on education across the lifespan in historically underrepresented regions, contexts, and topics. CER promotes multidisciplinary research, valuing diverse perspectives and methodologies in order to expand and transgress current ways of knowing and understanding education throughout the world. Through publishing eclectic scholarship, the CER editorial team seeks to engage a wide-ranging community of scholars, practitioners, and policy-makers.

This is volume 67 issue S1 of Comparative Education Review. The Comparative Education Review (CER) is the flagship journal of the Comparative and International Education Society. Its editorial team pursues greater critical engagement, interrogation and innovation in the field of comparative and international education. The journal publishes intellectually rigorous original research in both theoretical and practical applications, seeking representation across sexual, ethnic, cultural and religious diversity. Further, the editors seek to advance the field by bringing greater awareness to discourses on education across the lifespan in historically underrepresented regions, contexts, and topics. CER promotes multidisciplinary research, valuing diverse perspectives and methodologies in order to expand and transgress current ways of knowing and understanding education throughout the world. Through publishing eclectic scholarship, the CER editorial team seeks to engage a wide-ranging community of scholars, practitioners, and policy-makers.

This is volume 68 issue 1 of Comparative Education Review. The Comparative Education Review (CER) is the flagship journal of the Comparative and International Education Society. Its editorial team pursues greater critical engagement, interrogation and innovation in the field of comparative and international education. The journal publishes intellectually rigorous original research in both theoretical and practical applications, seeking representation across sexual, ethnic, cultural and religious diversity. Further, the editors seek to advance the field by bringing greater awareness to discourses on education across the lifespan in historically underrepresented regions, contexts, and topics. CER promotes multidisciplinary research, valuing diverse perspectives and methodologies in order to expand and transgress current ways of knowing and understanding education throughout the world. Through publishing eclectic scholarship, the CER editorial team seeks to engage a wide-ranging community of scholars, practitioners, and policy-makers.

This is volume 68 issue 2 of Comparative Education Review. The Comparative Education Review (CER) is the flagship journal of the Comparative and International Education Society. Its editorial team pursues greater critical engagement, interrogation and innovation in the field of comparative and international education. The journal publishes intellectually rigorous original research in both theoretical and practical applications, seeking representation across sexual, ethnic, cultural and religious diversity. Further, the editors seek to advance the field by bringing greater awareness to discourses on education across the lifespan in historically underrepresented regions, contexts, and topics. CER promotes multidisciplinary research, valuing diverse perspectives and methodologies in order to expand and transgress current ways of knowing and understanding education throughout the world. Through publishing eclectic scholarship, the CER editorial team seeks to engage a wide-ranging community of scholars, practitioners, and policy-makers.

This is volume 68 issue 3 of Comparative Education Review. The Comparative Education Review (CER) is the flagship journal of the Comparative and International Education Society. Its editorial team pursues greater critical engagement, interrogation and innovation in the field of comparative and international education. The journal publishes intellectually rigorous original research in both theoretical and practical applications, seeking representation across sexual, ethnic, cultural and religious diversity. Further, the editors seek to advance the field by bringing greater awareness to discourses on education across the lifespan in historically underrepresented regions, contexts, and topics. CER promotes multidisciplinary research, valuing diverse perspectives and methodologies in order to expand and transgress current ways of knowing and understanding education throughout the world. Through publishing eclectic scholarship, the CER editorial team seeks to engage a wide-ranging community of scholars, practitioners, and policy-makers.

This is volume 68 issue 4 of Comparative Education Review. The Comparative Education Review (CER) is the flagship journal of the Comparative and International Education Society. Its editorial team pursues greater critical engagement, interrogation and innovation in the field of comparative and international education. The journal publishes intellectually rigorous original research in both theoretical and practical applications, seeking representation across sexual, ethnic, cultural and religious diversity. Further, the editors seek to advance the field by bringing greater awareness to discourses on education across the lifespan in historically underrepresented regions, contexts, and topics. CER promotes multidisciplinary research, valuing diverse perspectives and methodologies in order to expand and transgress current ways of knowing and understanding education throughout the world. Through publishing eclectic scholarship, the CER editorial team seeks to engage a wide-ranging community of scholars, practitioners, and policy-makers.

At the intersection of two sweeping global trends—the rise of popular support for principles of theocratic governance and the spread of constitutionalism and judicial review—a new legal order has emerged: constitutional theocracy. It enshrines religion and its interlocutors as “a” or “the” source of legislation, and at the same time adheres to core ideals and practices of modern constitutionalism. A unique hybrid of apparently conflicting worldviews, values, and interests, constitutional theocracies thus offer an ideal setting—a “living laboratory” as it were—for studying constitutional law as a form of politics by other means. In this book, Ran Hirschl undertakes a rigorous comparative analysis of religion-and-state jurisprudence from dozens of countries worldwide to explore the evolving role of constitutional law and courts in a non-secularist world.

Counterintuitively, Hirschl argues that the constitutional enshrinement of religion is a rational, prudent strategy that allows opponents of theocratic governance to talk the religious talk without walking most of what they regard as theocracy’s unappealing, costly walk. Many of the jurisdictional, enforcement, and cooptation advantages that gave religious legal regimes an edge in the pre-modern era, are now aiding the modern state and its laws in its effort to contain religion. The “constitutional” in a constitutional theocracy thus fulfills the same restricting function it carries out in a constitutional democracy: it brings theocratic governance under check and assigns to constitutional law and courts the task of a bulwark against the threat of radical religion.

Drawing on extensive fieldwork in Havana's secondary schools, Cuban Youth and Revolutionary Values is a remarkable ethnography, charting the government's attempts to transform a future generation of citizens. While Cuba's high literacy rate is often lauded, the little-known dropout rates among teenagers receive less scrutiny. In vivid, succinct reporting, educational anthropologist Denise Blum now shares her findings regarding this overlooked aspect of the Castro legacy.

Despite the fact that primary-school enrollment rates exceed those of the United States, the reverse is true for the crucial years between elementary school and college. After providing a history of Fidel Castro's educational revolution begun in 1953, Denise Blum delivers a close examination of the effects of the program, which was designed to produce a society motivated by benevolence rather than materialism. Exploring pioneering pedagogy, the notion of civic education, and the rural components of the program, Cuban Youth and Revolutionary Values brims with surprising findings about one of the most intriguing social experiments in recent history.

When anthropologists and other students of culture want to compare different societies in such areas as the organization of land, labor, trade, or barter, they often discover that individual researchers use these concepts inconsistently and from a variety of theoretical approaches, so that data from one society cannot be compared with data from another.

In this book, Rhoda Halperin offers an analytical tool kit for studying economic processes in all societies and at all times. She uniquely organizes the book around key concepts: economy, ecology, equivalencies, householding, storage, and time and the economy. These concepts are designed to facilitate the understanding of similarities, differences, and changes between contemporary and past economies. While this is not only a "how-to" book or handbook, it can be used as such. It will be of great value to scholars and students of archaeology and history, as well as to ethnographers and economists.

Anthropologist Dr Ad Borsboom, chair of Pacific Studies at Radboud University Nijmegen, devoted his academic career from 1972 onwards to the transmission of cultural knowledge. Borsboom handed the insights he acquired during many years of fieldwork among Australian Aborigines on to other academics, students and the general public. This collection of essays by his colleagues, specializing in cultures from across the globe, focuses on knowledge transmission. The contributions deal with local forms of education or pedagogics, the learning experiences of fieldwork and the nexus of status and education. Whereas some essays are reflexive, others are personal in nature. But all of the authors are fascinated by the divergent ways in which people handle ‘knowledge’. The volume provides readers with respectful representations of other cultures and their distinct epistemologies.