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Aug 14, 2017 · Winner of the British Academy Medal. Finalist, National Book Critics Circle Award. “It seems safe to say that Capital in the Twenty-First Century, the magnum opus of the French economist Thomas Piketty, will be the most important economics book of the year―and maybe of the decade.”. ―Paul Krugman, New York Times.
Capital in the Twenty-First Century shows how privateers use privatization, debt creation and capital inflation as a mechanism for rent extraction, with catastrophic consequences for public services. —Allyson Pollock, Times Higher Education
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.
Aug 14, 2017 · “It seems safe to say that Capital in the Twenty-First Century, the magnum opus of the French economist Thomas Piketty, will be the most important economics book of the year—and maybe...
12. Global Ine quality of Wealth in the Twenty-First Century . 430 Part Four: Regulating Capital in the Twenty-First Century 13. A Social State for the Twenty-First Century . 471 14. Rethinking the Progressive Income Tax . 493 15. A Global Tax on Capital . 515 16. Th e Question of the Public Debt . 540 Conclusion. 571 Notes . 579 Contents in ...
Mar 10, 2014 · Thomas Piketty. Harvard University Press, Mar 10, 2014 - Business & Economics - 695 pages. The main driver of inequality--returns on capital that exceed the rate of economic growth--is again...
Mar 10, 2014 · The blockbuster economics book of the season, Thomas Piketty ’s Capital in the Twenty-First Century, argues that the great equalizing decades following World War II, which brought on the rise of the middle class in the United States, were but a historical anomaly.
