Why save the bankers?
Subtitle: and other essays on our economic and political crisis
By: Thomas Piketty ; translated from the French and annotated by Seth Ackerman
Contributors: Ackerman, Seth, translator
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 212
ISBN-13: 9780544663329; 9780544868847
Subjects: Politics and government; Monetary policy; Financial crises; Economic policy; Economic conditions; Global Financial Crisis, 2008-2009; Central Banks and banking
Work titles: Essays
Description: Shares incisive commentary on the financial meltdown and its aftermath, counseling democratic societies on how to avoid the practices that have led to unregulated markets and economic inequality.
Notes: Includes index.

Translations of essays that originally appeared in the French newspapers Libération and Le Monde.

Translated from the French.
Table of contents: title: Why save the bankers?; title: A trillion dollars; title: Obama and FDR: a misleading analogy; title: Profits, wages, and inequality; title: The Irish disaster; title: Central banks at work; title: Forgotten inequalities; title: Mysteries of the carbon tax; title: Lessons for the tax system from the Bettencourt affair; title: Enough of GDP, let's go back to national income; title: Down with idiotic taxes!; title: Who will be the winners of the crisis?; title: With or without a platform?; title: Record bank profits: a matter of politics; title: No, the Greeks aren't lazy; title: Europe against the markets; title: Rethinking central banks; title: Does Liliane Bettencourt pay taxes?; title: Toward a calm debate on the wealth tax; title: Should we fear the Fed?; title: The scandal of the Irish bank bailout; title: Japan: private wealth, public debts; title: Greece: for a European bank tax; title: Poor as jobs; title: Rethinking the European project; title: and fast; title: Protectionism: a useful weapon ... For lack of anything better; title: Francois Hollande, a new Roosevelt for Europe?; title: Federalism: the only solution; title: The what and why of federalism; title: Action, fast!; title: Merkhollande and the Eurozone: shortsighted selfishness; title: The Italian elections: Europe's responsibility; title: For a European wealth tax; title: Slavery: reparations through transparency; title: A new Europe to overcome the crisis; title: Can growth save us?; title: IMF: still a ways to go!; title: Libé: what does it mean to be free?; title: On oligarchy in America; title: To the polls, citizens!; title: The exorbitant cost of being a small country; title: Capital in Hong Kong?; title: Capital according to Carlos Fuentes; title: 2015: what shocks can get Europe moving?; title: Spreading the democratic revolution to the rest of Europe; title: The double hardship of the working class; title: Must debts always be paid back?; title: A crackdown alone will solve nothing.