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作者：Walden Bello Translator:        王敬国 在这篇摘要中，沃顿-贝洛提炼了托马斯-皮凯蒂《资本与意识形态》中的关键思想和数据。这位法国经济学家值得更多人去阅读，但很多人既没有时间也没有精力去读完这部长达1042页的经典之作。促成完成这份小册子的动机是这样一个信念：皮凯蒂不能被单单留给研究社会阶层的专家和马克思学者（Marxologist），因为他有太多有价值的见解了，无论是对过去还是现在的社会，这些见解也对致力于变革社会的努力十分有用。 很多人对皮凯蒂的认识是来自于别人对他的作品所做的评论或者批评，所以这些人的的理解是带有自己的主观色彩的。 很多关于皮凯蒂的文 …

In March 2020, countries across the world went into nationwide lockdowns as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. Agricultural activities such as sowing and harvest were delayed, and import and export of commodities were stalled, driving a wedge into supply chains that spanned many continents. Restrict …

En este resumen, Walden Bello condensa las ideas y datos clave contenidos en la monumental obra de Thomas Piketty El capital y la ideología. El economista francés merece ser leído por más gente, pero muchos no tienen ni el tiempo ni la energía para recorrer este extenso clásico de 1.215 páginas. Est …

Dans ce résumé, Walden Bello présente les idées et les données essentielles contenues dans l’œuvre monumentale de Thomas Piketty, Capital et idéologie. L’économiste français mérite d’être lu par un grand nombre de personnes, mais beaucoup n’ont ni le temps ni l’énergie de travailler sur cet ouvrage …

At a time when the COVID-19 pandemic has laid bare the disastrous effects of the global neoliberal order, highlighting the need for radical redistributive reforms, India has chosen the opposite path. The three new agricultural laws enacted by the government of Narendra Modi threaten to further liber …

Thomas Piketty’s Capital and Ideology is a wide-ranging exploration of the origins, maintenance, and persistence of inequality that spans 1042 pages.  In the interest of making the French economist more accessible, Focus on the Global South came up with Reading Piketty I: A Concise and Comprehensive …

The global trade system established in 1948 by the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), the predecessor organization of the WTO, intentionally excluded agriculture from its jurisdiction. The exception, requested by the US, allowed member states to maintain support and protection policies f …

Since the food crisis in the 1960s, India’s agricultural policy was designed to promote food security and protect rural livelihoods. From the mid-1990s, successive governments resisted neoliberal, export-oriented policies pushed by the World Trade Organization’s Agreement on Agriculture. Indian nego …

In this summary, Walden Bello distills the key ideas and data contained in Thomas Piketty’s monumental work Capital and Ideology. The French economist deserves to be read by more people, but many have neither the time nor energy to work through this sprawling 1,042-page classic. This short volume is …

Global economic development has been going through a process of rising polarisation. Countries in the global South are far from being able to catch up with the global North, where digital technology companies are the new corporate giants. How does the digitalisation of the economy contribute to the …