{"id":4366,"date":"2021-10-26T14:18:49","date_gmt":"2021-10-26T21:18:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/?p=4366"},"modified":"2021-10-26T14:18:49","modified_gmt":"2021-10-26T21:18:49","slug":"book-review-time-for-socialism-by-thomas-piketty-the-new-york-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/2021\/10\/26\/book-review-time-for-socialism-by-thomas-piketty-the-new-york-times\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Review: \u2018Time for Socialism,\u2019 by Thomas Piketty &#8211; The New York Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to the New York Times&#8217; <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/10\/26\/books\/review\/time-for-socialism-thomas-piketty.html\">Book Review of \u2018Time for Socialism,\u2019 by Thomas Piketty<\/a> ,<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"css-axufdj evys1bk0\">Piketty calls for a \u201cuniversal capital endowment\u201d for all citizens beginning at birth, funded by taxes on wealth and inheritances.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div>and<\/div>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"css-axufdj evys1bk0\">Though provocative, none of these ideas is remarkable or original.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Well I am sure the idea wasn&#8217;t original <a href=\"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/2020\/05\/31\/more-thoughts-on-ubi\/\">with me<\/a> either. But what <em>is<\/em> remarkable (to me) is the lack of a strong movement arguing for this for decades.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to the New York Times&#8217; Book Review of \u2018Time for Socialism,\u2019 by Thomas Piketty , Piketty calls for a \u201cuniversal capital endowment\u201d for all citizens beginning at birth, funded by taxes on wealth and inheritances. and Though provocative, none &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/2021\/10\/26\/book-review-time-for-socialism-by-thomas-piketty-the-new-york-times\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4366","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4366"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4366\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4367,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4366\/revisions\/4367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}