TY  - BOOK
AU  - Piketty,Thomas
AU  - Ackerman,Seth
TI  - Chronicles: on our troubled times 
SN  - 9780241234891
U1  - 330.9051 
PY  - 2016///
CY  - London
PB  - Viking, an imprint of Penguin Books
KW  - Economic history
KW  - 21st century
KW  - Financial crises
KW  - Europe
KW  - Global Financial Crisis, 2008-2009
KW  - Economic policy
KW  - Economic conditions
KW  - Politics and government
N1  - Originally published as Why save the bankers? : United States : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016; "Portions of this book were previously published in Peut-on sauver l'Europe? and will be published in Chroniques 2012-2016"--Title page verso; I. WHY SAVE THE BANKERS? : 2008-10. Why save the bankers? ; A trillion dollars ; Obama and FDR: a misleading analogy ; Profits, wages, and inequality ; The Irish disaster ; Central banks at work ; Forgotten inequalities ; Mysteries of the carbon tax ; Lessons for the tax system from the Bettencourt affair ; Enough of GDP, let's go back to national income ; Down with idiotic taxes! ; Who will be the winners of the crisis? ; With or without a platform? ; Record bank profits: a matter of politics -- II. NO, THE GREEKS AREN'T LAZY : 2010-12. No, the Greeks aren't lazy ; Europe against the markets ; Rethinking central banks ; Does Liliane Bettencourt pay taxes? ; Toward a calm debate on the wealth tax ; Should we fear the Fed? ; The scandal of the Irish bank bailout ; Japan: private wealth, public debts ; Greece: for a European bank tax ; Poor as jobs ; Rethinking the European project--and fast ; Protectionism: a useful weapon ... For lack of anything better ; Francois Hollande, a new Roosevelt for Europe? ; Federalism: the only solution ; The what and why of federalism -- III. ACTION, FAST! : 2012-15. Action, fast! ; Merkhollande and the Eurozone: shortsighted selfishness ; The Italian elections: Europe's responsibility ; For a European wealth tax ; Slavery: reparations through transparency ; A new Europe to overcome the crisis ; Can growth save us? ; imf: still a ways to go! ; Libé: what does it mean to be free? ; On oligarchy in America ; To the polls, citizens! ; The exorbitant cost of being a small country ; Capital in Hong Kong? ; Capital according to Carlos Fuentes ; 2015: what shocks can get Europe moving? ; Spreading the democratic revolution to the rest of Europe ; The double hardship of the working class ; Must debts always be paid back? ; A crackdown alone will solve nothing
N2  - 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
ER  -