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xii, 212 pages ; 22 cm Thomas Piketty's work has shown that unfettered markets lead to increasing inequality. Without meaningful regulation, capitalist economies will concentrate wealth in an ever smaller number of hands. Armed with this knowledge, democratic societies face a defining challenge: fending off a new aristocracy. For years, Piketty has wrestled with this problem in his monthly newspaper column, which pierces the surface of current events to reveal the economic forces underneath. Why Save the Bankers? brings together selected columns, now translated and annotated, from the period book-ended by the September 2008 collapse of Lehman Brothers and the Paris attacks of November 2015. In between, writing from the vantage point of his native France, Piketty decodes the European sovereign debt crisis, an urgent struggle against the tyranny of markets that bears lessons for the world at large. And along the way, he weighs in on oligarchy in the United States, wonders whether debts actually need to be paid back, and discovers surprising lessons about inequality by examining the career of Steve Jobs. Part I. Why Save the Bankers? 2008-10. Why Save the Bankers? : September 30, 2008 -- A Trillion Dollars : October 28, 2008 -- Obama and FDR: A Misleading Analogy : January 20, 2009 -- Profits, Wages, and Inequality : March 17, 2009 -- The Irish Disaster : April 14, 2009 -- Central Banks at Work : May 12, 2009 -- Forgotten Inequalities : June 9, 2009 -- Mysteries of the Carbon Tax : July 7, 2009 -- Lessons for the Tax System from the Bettencourt Affair : September 8, 2009 -- Enough of GDP, Let's Go Back to National Income : October 6, 2009 -- Down with Idiotic Taxes! : November 3, 2009 -- Who Will Be the Winners of the Crisis? : December 1, 2009 -- With or Without a Platform? : December 29, 2009 -- Record Bank Profits: A Matter of Politics : February 23, 2010 -- Part II. No, the Greeks Aren't Lazy 2010-12. No, the Greeks Aren't Lazy : March 23, 2010 -- Europe Against the Markets : May 18, 2010 -- Rethinking Central Banks : June 15, 2010 -- Does Liliane Bettencourt Pay Taxes? : July 13, 2010 -- Toward a Calm Debate on the Wealth Tax : October 12, 2010 -- Should We Fear the Fed? : November 9, 2010 -- The Scandal of the Irish Bank Bailout : December 7, 2010 -- Japan: Private Wealth, Public Debts : April 5, 2011 -- Greece: For a European Bank Tax : June 28, 2011 -- Poor as Jobs : October 25, 2011 -- Rethinking the European Project--and Fast : November 22, 2011 -- Protectionism: A Useful Weapon ... for Lack of Anything Better : December 20, 2011 -- François Hollande, a New Roosevelt for Europe? : May 8, 2012 -- Federalism: The Only Solution : June 5, 2012 -- The What and Why of Federalism : July 4, 2012 -- Part III. Action, Fast! 2012-15. Action, Fast! : September 25, 2012 -- Merkhollande and the Eurozone: Shortsighted Selfishness : December 18, 2012 -- The Italian Elections: Europe's Responsibility : February 26, 2013 -- For a European Wealth Tax : March 26, 2013 -- Slavery: Reparations Through Transparency : May 21, 2013 -- A New Europe to Overcome the Crisis : June 18, 2013 -- Can Growth Save Us? : September 24, 2013 -- IMF: Still a Ways to Go! : October 22, 2013 -- Libé: What Does It Mean to Be Free? : February 25, 2014 -- On Oligarchy in America ; April 21, 2014 -- To the Polls, Citizens! : May 20, 2014 -- The Exorbitant Cost of Being a Small Country : September 8, 2014 -- Capital in Hong Kong? : November 3, 2014 -- Capital According to Carlos Fuentes : December 1, 2014 -- 2015: What Shocks Can Get Europe Moving? : December 29, 2014 -- Spreading the Democratic Revolution to the Rest of Europe : January 26, 2015 -- The Double Hardship of the Working Class : March 23, 2015 -- Must Debts Always Be Paid Back? : April 20, 2015 -- A Crackdown Alone Will Solve Nothing : Le Monde, November 21, 2015. Thomas Piketty ; translated from the French and annotated by Seth Ackerman. Includes index. e------ Financial crises Europe Global Financial Crisis, 2008-2009 Banks and banking, Central Europe Monetary policy Europe Crisis financiera Europa Crisis financiera global, 2008-2009 Europe Economic policy Europe Economic conditions 21st century Europe Politics and government 21st century Europa Política económica HB 3782 P636w 2016 330.94 9780544663329 (hbk) 9780544868847 (pbk) 2015038221 DLC 151023 20230411090120.0 18829955 spa