Name: Capital in the Twenty-First Century
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Author: Thomas Piketty
ISBN: 9780674430006

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Type

Physical Book

Author

Thomas Piketty

Translated by

Arthur Goldhammer

Publisher

Belknap Press

Year

2014

Language

English

Pages

704

Format

Hardcover

Dimensions

24.4x16.8x4.7 cm

Weight

1.21 kg.

ISBN13

9780674430006

Edition No.

Synopsis "Capital in the Twenty-First Century "

A New York Times #1 BestsellerAn Amazon #1 BestsellerA Wall Street Journal #1 BestsellerA USA Today BestsellerA Sunday Times BestsellerA Guardian Best Book of the 21st CenturyWinner of the Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year AwardWinner of the British Academy MedalFinalist, National Book Critics Circle Award 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.

Thomas Piketty

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Thomas Piketty (Clichy, 1971) is an economist, PhD in Economics, and expert in economic inequality. He is currently the head of studies at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales and a professor at the École d'Économie de Paris. He has published several books, among which stand out Capital in the Twenty-First Century (2013), Capital and Ideology (2019), and A Brief History of Inequality (2021). Throughout his career, he has been recognized with various awards, such as the Best Young Economist of France and the Yrjö Jahnsson Award.

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