CANCELED - The 2020 Michel Serres Distinguished Lecture featuring Thomas Piketty

The Department of French and Italian presents The 2020 Michel Serres Distinguished Lecture with special guest Thomas Piketty, author and French economist, who will talk about his recent book, "Capital and Ideology".

Thomas Piketty teaches at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales and at the École d’Économie de Paris, and is Centennial Professor at the International Inequalities Institute of London School of Economics. His book, Capital in the Twenty-First Century (2014), which sold over 2.5 million books worldwide, provides a historical account of inequality in the past two centuries across Western Europe, the US, and Japan. A New York Time’s Best Seller, Capital in the Twenty-First Century has laid the foundations for contemporary debate on the origins of income and wealth inequality. His latest book, Capital and Ideology (2020), examines the justification of inequality regimes at a global scale, spanning the West, India, Brazil, over several centuries. His analysis of the ideological foundation of wealth inequalities leads Piketty to argue for a new “participatory” socialism, a system founded on an ideology of equality, social property, education, and the sharing of knowledge and power.

This event is free and open to the public.