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Erik Olin Wright

Erik Olin Wright was educated at Harvard, Balliol College, Oxford, and the University of California, Berkeley, where he received his PhD in Sociology. He has taught sociology at the University of Wisconsin since 1976. His forthcoming book Understanding Class (2015) proposes a framework for integrating the insights of different traditions of class analysis. icon

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The Piketty Effect: Part 1

By Erik Olin Wright & Nicolas Frémeaux

Thomas Piketty’s Capital in the Twenty-First Century was published in English to instant best-seller status and wide acclaim and debate. In the United States, his author appearances drew enormous audiences...

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