The world's leading economist of inequality presents a short but sweeping and surprisingly optimistic history of human progress toward equality despite crises, disasters, and backsliding. A perfect introduction to the ideas developed in his monumental earlier books. It's easy to be pessimistic about inequality. We know it has increased dramatically in many parts of the world over the past two generations. No one has done more to reveal the problem...

""[Marx's Kapital: An Illustrated Introduction is] valuable and in some respects more so than all the interpretations and popularizations I have read."--C.L.R. JamesRichly illustrated, strikingly accessible, and surprisingly comprehensive, David N. Smith and Phil Evans present Karl Marx's Capital as it was meant to be: in graphic novel form."--