The ballads, legendary fantasies and satirical grand guignol of this period
serfs, on the other hand, had disposal over their own means of production and the land, but had to yield part of the fruits of their labour in the form of goods in kind to their lords (or perform corvée)
Piketty’s apodictic statements, for example that the long-term consequences of the wealth distribution dynamic is ‘frightening’
Piketty's thesis--that the tendency towards growing inequality is not a dumb coincidence but rather a law immanent to the economy or at least a strong tendency--is provocative
a definition of human capital, despite its humanistic connotations, does not move beyond economism and ignores, inter alia, the fact that the scholastic yield from educational action depends on the cultural capital previously invested by the family.
