Time for Socialism: Dispatches from a World on Fire, 2016-2021 Free Audiobook Download by Thomas Piketty

Thomas Piketty’s book is written in an accessible and conversational style which makes it easy to listen to. The author is a French economist with a PhD from the Paris School of Economics. His work on capital in recent years has been featured by publications like New York Times, Financial Times, and the Guardian. In ‘Time for Socialism: Dispatches from a World on Fire’, he looks at how wealth inequality will affect society going into the future.

There is no shortage of historic and current accounts of the catastrophic consequences of capitalism. In the wake of this history, Thomas Piketty's latest work takes a deep dive into the future and unveils what could happen if we continue down our current path with exacerbated inequality as a result of global economic forces.

The author's reflections on the two years since the Paris Agreement on climate change is centered on three questions: how did we get here, how will we get out of this mess, and what should be done in the short term? One answer, he says, is democratic socialism.

The past few years have been a tumultuous time for the world, in politics and economics. The global economic crisis of 2008-2009 has never really gone away; it just morphed into a different problem: inequality . We are currently living through a period in which the world's wealthy are becoming only wealthier, while the rest of the population is becoming poorer. Nothing could exemplify this better than Thomas Piketty's book, "Time for Socialism."

In November of 2016, the coal industry employed 67,000 people in America. By June of 2021 that number had dropped to a mere 3,000. In the same time period, the oil and gas industry employed 628,000 people and lost just 11,000 jobs. This set the stage for an industry-wide transformation into the world's most powerful renewable energy resource.

In his latest book, Time for Socialism: Dispatches from a World on Fire, Thomas Piketty takes readers on a whirlwind journey through the past, present and future of economics. The author does not shy away from addressing the world's most pressing issues including globalization, inequality and capitalism.