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Oct 6, 2014 · Piketty’s research shows that the average rate of return on capital has held at around 4% to 5% for most of human history. It rose above 5% during the Industrial Revolution, then fell back below 5% during the middle of the 20th century.
Capital in the Twenty-First Century (French: Le Capital au XXI e siècle) is a book written by French economist Thomas Piketty. It focuses on wealth and income inequality in Europe and the United States since the 18th century.
- Thomas Piketty
- 2013
Apr 15, 2014 · In Capital in the Twenty-First Century, Thomas Piketty analyzes a unique collection of data from twenty countries, ranging as far back as the eighteenth century, to uncover key economic and social patterns.
Apr 8, 2014 · The provocative argument of Capital in the 21st Century is that market capitalism, including the kind of welfare state capitalism practiced in continental Europe, will eventually lead to an...
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Feb 4, 2021 · The documentary opens with the fall of the Berlin Wall and sets the stage of exposing communism and championing capitalism, but Thomas Piketty warns that the capitalism we know now has gone too...
Sep 24, 2020 · J ustin Pemberton’s documentary, based on the bestselling book by French economist Thomas Piketty, tells us a story no less depressing or gruesomely hypnotic for being so familiar – like...
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Jun 1, 2015 · Thomas Piketty’s capitalism in the twenty-first century is arguably the most significant book in empirical economics since Simon Kuznets’s Modern Economic Growth (1966) and, on a theoretical plane, since Keynes’s General Theory (1936).
