Less noticed, because less obviously political, are today’s intellectual rumblings, of which French economist Thomas Piketty’s Capital in the Twenty-First Century, a withering indictment of growing inequality, is the latest manifestation. We may be witnessing the beginning of the end of the neoliberal capitalist consensus that has prevailed throughout the West since the 1980s – and that many claim led to the economic disaster of 2008-2009.
较少被关注到——因为政治性不那么明显——的是如今的思想碰撞，在这方面，法国经济学家托马斯·皮克提（Thomas Piketty）的《二十一世纪资本论》（Capital in the Twenty-First Century）便是这一问题的最新明证。《二十一世纪资本论》尖锐抨击了日益严重的不平等性问题。我们或许正在目睹新自由派资本主义共识终结的开端，在西方，这一共识主宰了整个20世纪80年代，并被许多人认为是2008—2009年经济灾难的源头。