‘If democracy is someday to regain control of capitalism…[the] concrete institutions in which democracy, capitalism are embodied, need to be reinvented again and again’

Capital in the 21st Century by Thomas Piketty says that for many “wealth” amounts to little more than a few weeks’ wages in a checking account, a car and a few pieces of furniture. The author says that the "inescapable reality” is this: the wealth is so concentrated that a large segment of society is virtually unaware of its existence, so that “some people imagine that it belongs to surreal or mysterious entities. That is why it is so essential to study capital and its distribution in a methodical, systematic way”.