The Inequality Lab

Wealth, Labour, and Capital

How do societies generate and distribute wealth? These books examine the mechanisms of capital accumulation, the moral foundations of labour, and the long structural history of inequality. The focus is on argument quality: whether the causal claims hold, whether the evidence is adequate, and whether the normative conclusions follow from the analysis.

Thomas Piketty. Capital in the Twenty-First Century. Harvard University Press, 2017.