Social Equity


Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
Detroit: An American Autopsy
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
Climate Change Is Racist: Race, Privilege and the Struggle for Climate Justice
Grass
The Israel-Palestine Conflict: One Hundred Years of War
The Street
Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America
The Grapes of Wrath
Flight Path: A Search for Roots beneath the World's Busiest Airport
Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right
The View From Flyover Country: Essays by Sarah Kendzior
Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination
Bury Me Standing: The Gypsies and Their Journey
Thomas Piketty
What is a just society? For the purposes of this book, I propose the following imperfect definition. A just society is one that allows all of its members access to the widest possible range of fundamental goods. Fundamental goods include education, health, the right to vote, and more generally to participate as fully as possible in the various forms of social, cultural, economic, civic, and political life. A just society organizes socioeconomic relations, property rights, and the distribution of ...more
Thomas Piketty, Capital and Ideology