From the Book - First edition.
Part I: Setting the scene. How Piketty created an industry ; Three different types and four different causes of inequality ; Why inequality really matters
Part II: Analysis and implications. Has the world become more unequal? ; The paradox of rising inequality and falling poverty ; Inequality and growth
Part III: The deserving and the undeserving rich. Who are the super-rich? ; The undeserving rich ; Clogs to clogs in five generations
Part IV: Fixing the problem. Elephants, camels and spitting cobras : what happens next? ; Education, education, education
and education ; Saving capitalism from itself ; Attacking the law of unintended consequences ; Making poorer people richer by cutting the cost of living ; Can a universal basic income really work? ; Using taxation for redistribution ; Neither Trump nor Corbyn
rejecting false solutions.