Capital & Ideology: A Graphic Novel Adaptation

<b>Thomas Piketty?s powerful and bestselling <i>Capital and Ideology</i> is now available in this accessible and richly illustrated full-color graphic novel format.</b><br><br> Praised by Piketty himself as a ?magnificent adaptation? of his original book, this graphic novel adaptation is perfect for anyone looking to understand the wealth gap and why society is the way it is today.<br><br> Claire Alet and Benjamin Adam make the original work?s ideas more accessible through the addition of a family saga. Jules, the main character, is born at the end of the 19th century. He is a person of private means, a privileged figure representative of a profoundly unequal society obsessed with property.<br><br> He, his family circle, and his descendants will experience the evolution of wealth and society. Eight generations of his family serve as a connecting thread running through the book, all the way up to Léa, a young woman today, who discovers the family secret at the root of their inheritance.<br><br> The book concludes with six compelling proposals for participatory socialism in the 21st century.<br><br> Friendly and approachable illustrations by cartoonist and children?s book author Benjamin Adam are easy to understand without diluting the subject matter. The material is adapted expertly by Claire Alet, a former journalist at <i>Alternatives Economiques</i>.