Dominik A. Leusder is an economist and writer based in London. He’s a researcher at the London School of Economics and research fellow at Dezernat Zukunft, the Institute for Macrofinance in Berlin. The views expressed here are his own.
Angela Merkel’s 16-year German chancellorship has finally come to an end. Though she presented herself as the sensible and stabilizing force in Europe, her tenure was characterized by economic neglect, obstruction, and brutal austerity.
Whatever its shortcomings, Thomas Piketty’s latest book, Capital and Ideology, is a serious attempt to map our social world without resorting to easy abstractions.