...John Plotz This piece asks what relation the turn toward a new era of patrimonial capitalism—traced in Thomas Piketty's recent work—bears to the modern rise of fantasy worlds and speculative fiction. The problem of justifying distinction in a world that presumes common humanity beneath surface...

... conclusion, Reber claims her project as a humanist's version of Thomas Piketty's Capital in the Twenty-First Century , using this analogy to proclaim “an apologetic return to Marx that has tacitly informed my thinking throughout” (245). But, just as Piketty (as he himself acknowledges) does not privilege...

... presented by “cash flow” (515) realities, such as those affecting Sir Walter Elliot. Thomas Piketty's (surprising) bestseller, Capital in the Twenty-First Century , also turns to Austen (alongside Honoré de Balzac) to explore questions of inequality, arguing that “both novelists were intimately...

... generation of artists, historians, and literary scholars has seemed to anticipate Thomas Piketty in affirming the realist novel as an indispensable feature in the ongoing story he tells in Capitalism in the Twenty-First Century ( 2014 ). The sociologist Giovanni Arrighi has provided a compelling frame...

.... DeBevoise M. B. Cambridge, MA : MIT P , 2014 . Pettifor Ann . The Production of Money: How to Break the Power of Bankers . Brooklyn : Verso , 2017 . Piketty Thomas . Capital in the Twenty-First Century . Trans. Goldhammer Arthur . Cambridge, MA : Belknap , 2014...