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by Thomas Picketty and Claire Alet, illustrated by Benjamin Adam
An adaptation of Tom Picketty’s economic treaties Capital and Ideology, this comic is perfect for anyone looking to understand the wealth gap and why society is the way it is today. Picketty’s work has been a central counter balance to neoliberal economic assumptions, and is at the forefront of a new wave of economic study based in material research which seeks to understand the mechanisms by which inequality sustains itself in today’s forms of capitalism.
Claire Alet and Benjamin Adam make the original work’s ideas more accessible through the addition of a family saga. Jules, the main character, is born at the end of the 19th century. He is a person of private means, a privileged figure representative of a profoundly unequal society obsessed with property.
He, his family circle, and his descendants will experience the evolution of wealth and society. Eight generations of his family serve as a connecting thread running through the book, all the way up to Léa, a young woman today, who discovers the family secret at the root of their inheritance.
The book concludes with six compelling proposals for participatory socialism in the 21st century.
by Thomas Picketty and Claire Alet, illustrated by Benjamin Adam
An adaptation of Tom Picketty’s economic treaties Capital and Ideology, this comic is perfect for anyone looking to understand the wealth gap and why society is the way it is today. Picketty’s work has been a central counter balance to neoliberal economic assumptions, and is at the forefront of a new wave of economic study based in material research which seeks to understand the mechanisms by which inequality sustains itself in today’s forms of capitalism.
Claire Alet and Benjamin Adam make the original work’s ideas more accessible through the addition of a family saga. Jules, the main character, is born at the end of the 19th century. He is a person of private means, a privileged figure representative of a profoundly unequal society obsessed with property.
He, his family circle, and his descendants will experience the evolution of wealth and society. Eight generations of his family serve as a connecting thread running through the book, all the way up to Léa, a young woman today, who discovers the family secret at the root of their inheritance.
The book concludes with six compelling proposals for participatory socialism in the 21st century.