A Brief History of Equality

The Equality Revolution is a groundbreaking book that offers a sweeping and optimistic history of human progress towards equality, despite crises, disasters, and backsliding.

Written by the world's leading economist of inequality, Thomas Piketty, this book provides a comprehensive guide to the great movements that have shaped the modern world, including the growth of capitalism, revolutions, imperialism, slavery, wars, and the building of the welfare state. With elegance and concision, Piketty takes readers through the history of violence and social struggle, highlighting how human societies have been moving towards a more just distribution of income and assets, as well as greater access to healthcare, education, and citizenship rights. The book emphasizes the importance of political and ideological struggles in achieving equality, and provides practical solutions for institutional, legal, social, fiscal, and educational systems that can make equality a lasting reality. Through this powerful and thought-provoking work, Piketty inspires readers to take action and commit to what works, while resisting historical amnesia and cultural separatism.

The Equality Revolution is a must-read for anyone who wants to understand the complex history of inequality and how to create a better future for billions of people around the world.