Modern economic growth and the diffusion of knowledge have made it possible to avoid the Marxist apocalypse but have not modified the deep structures of capital and inequality-or in any case not as much as one might have imagined in the optimistic decades following World War II. (Thomas Piketty)

Modern economic growth and the diffusion of knowledge have made it possible to avoid the Marxist apocalypse but have not modified the deep structures of capital and inequality-or in any case not as much as one might have imagined in the optimistic decades following World War II.

Thomas Piketty

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