Capital in the twenty-first century / Thomas Piketty ; translated by Arthur Goldhammer.
Piketty, Thomas, 1971-; Goldhammer, Arthur, translator.
2014
HB501 .P43613 2014 (Mapit)
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Title Capital in the twenty-first century / Thomas Piketty ; translated by Arthur Goldhammer.
Author Piketty, Thomas, 1971-
Uniform Title Capital au XXIe siècle. English
ISBN 9780674430006 hardcover alkaline paper
067443000X alkaline paper
Published Cambridge Massachusetts : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2014.
Language English
Language Note Translation of the author's Le capital au XXIe siècle.
Description viii, 685 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Call Number HB501 .P43613 2014
Dewey Decimal Classification 332/.041
Summary What are the grand dynamics that drive the accumulation and distribution of capital? Questions about the long-term evolution of inequality, the concentration of wealth, and the prospects for economic growth lie at the heart of political economy. But satisfactory answers have been hard to find for lack of adequate data and clear guiding theories. In this work the author analyzes a unique collection of data from twenty countries, ranging as far back as the eighteenth century, to uncover key economic and social patterns. His findings transform debate and set the agenda for the next generation of thought about wealth and inequality. He shows that modern economic growth and the diffusion of knowledge have allowed us to avoid inequalities on the apocalyptic scale predicted by Karl Marx. But we have not modified the deep structures of capital and inequality as much as we thought in the optimistic decades following World War II. The main driver of inequality--the tendency of returns on capital to exceed the rate of economic growth--today threatens to generate extreme inequalities that stir discontent and undermine democratic values if political action is not taken. But economic trends are not acts of God. Political action has curbed dangerous inequalities in the past, the author says, and may do so again. This original work reorients our understanding of economic history and confronts us with sobering lessons for today.
Note Translation of the author's Le capital au XXIe siècle.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references (pages 579-655) and index.
Added Author Goldhammer, Arthur, translator.
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Part I. Income and capital. Income and output ; Growth : illusions and realities
Part II. The dynamics of the capital/income ratio. The metamorphoses of capital ; From old Europe to the new world ; The capital/income ratio over the long run ; The capital-labor split in the twenty-first century
Part III. The structure of inequality. Inequality and concentration : preliminary bearings ; Two worlds ; Inequality of labor income ; Inequality of capital ownership ; Merit and inheritance in the long run ; Global inequality of wealth in the twenty-first century
Part IV. Regulating capital in the twenty-first century. A social state for the twenty-first century ; Rethinking the progressive income tax ; A global tax on capital ; The question of the public debt.

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