Amazon cover image
Image from Amazon.com

Capital in the twenty-first century

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Publication details: Belknap Harvard, 2014Description: viii + 685 p. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9780674430006
Subject(s): Online resources:
Contents:
Income and output Growth : illusions and realities-- The metamorphoses of capital-- From old Europe to the new world-- The long-run capital/income ratio-- Capital's share vs. labor's share in the twenty-first century-- Inequality and concentration : an initial orientation-- The two worlds-- Inequality in the income from labor-- Inequality in the ownership of capital-- Merit and inheritance in the long run-- Global inequality of wealth 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.--
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 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. His findings will transform debate and set the agenda for the next generation of thought about wealth and inequality. Piketty 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. But economic trends are not acts of God. Political action has curbed dangerous inequalities in the past, Piketty says, and may do so again. A work of extraordinary ambition, originality, and rigor, Capital in the Twenty-First Century 'reorients our understanding of economic history and confronts us with sobering lessons for today. ;
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number Status Date due Barcode
Book TBS Barcelona Libre acceso HB501 PIK (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available B00565

Income and output Growth : illusions and realities-- The metamorphoses of capital-- From old Europe to the new world-- The long-run capital/income ratio-- Capital's share vs. labor's share in the twenty-first century-- Inequality and concentration : an initial orientation-- The two worlds-- Inequality in the income from labor-- Inequality in the ownership of capital-- Merit and inheritance in the long run-- Global inequality of wealth 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.--

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 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. His findings will transform debate and set the agenda for the next generation of thought about wealth and inequality. Piketty 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. But economic trends are not acts of God. Political action has curbed dangerous inequalities in the past, Piketty says, and may do so again. A work of extraordinary ambition, originality, and rigor, Capital in the Twenty-First Century 'reorients our understanding of economic history and confronts us with sobering lessons for today. ;

Powered by Koha