https://booksandideas.net// Books & Ideas is the English-language mirror website of La Vie des Idées, a free online journal which has gained a large readership and established itself in France as a major place for intellectual debate since 2007. en SPIP - www.spip.net https://booksandideas.net/local/cache-vignettes/L144xH68/siteon0-04014.png?1675949311 https://booksandideas.net// 68 144 https://booksandideas.net/German-Debates-on-Inequality-and-Public-Policy https://booksandideas.net/German-Debates-on-Inequality-and-Public-Policy 2014-12-18T08:00:00Z text/html en Ulrike Stein Germany inequalities Public Books Piketty recession <p>In our third text published in partnership with <a href="http://www.publicbooks.org/" class="spip_out" rel="external">Public Books</a>, Ulrike Stein shows how the vivid empirical material and proposals for reform provided by Thomas Piketty's book <i>Capital in the Twenty-First Century</i> bring new grist to the inequality debate in Germany. The “Piketty effect” is visible in many areas even before the release of the German edition, and both supporters and opponents of his work seize the opportunity to publicize their arguments on the subject of inequality.</p>