Quiddity

  The Quid on   Capital In The 21 st  Century   Book Author: Thomas Piketty     Preview  The rich are getting richer while the poor are slipping further into poverty. Thomas Piketty, in his book Capital in the 21st Century, which focuses on the inequality in the developed world, tries to provide an integrated explanation for this phenomenon, through a unified theory of inequality. It contains empirical data to prove that inequality has been steadily rising, and will continue to do so.    About the Author  Thomas Piketty is a French economist who teaches at the Paris School of Economics. His work focuses on wealth and income inequality. In a recent research paper that he co-authored with a colleague at the Paris School of Economics, he indicated that the inequality in India, too, is at the highest level ever with the top 1% population pocketing 22% of national income.  What to expect? The growing evil of inequality  While income (here referring to aggregate income) is equal to the total

The Quid on   Free Will   Book Author: Sam Harris   Preview   Are human beings the sole authors of their thoughts and actions? Is human behaviour freely-willed or subject to determinism by forces beyond our control? If determinism is true, what does that bode for human agency and dignity and the problem of holding people morally responsible? Sam Harris in his book  Free Will , published in 2012, takes up these questions, and through concise, eloquent and accessible philosophical arguments, establishes the case for determinism.   About the Author:   Samuel Benjamin Harris (1967- ) is an American author, philosopher, and neuroscientist. He is the author of several bestselling books and the winner of the 2005 PEN Award for Nonfiction.  Using a lucid and often humorous framework, Harris defends his philosophical outlook in  favour  of determinism. He combines neuroscience and psychology and with great intellectual panache offers convincing arguments substantiated by commonplace and relatab