Capital in the Twenty-First Century

Thomas Piketty

Harvard University Press, Aug 14, 2017 - Business & Economics - 816 pages

A New York Times #1 Bestseller
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A Guardian Best Book of the 21st Century
Winner of the Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award
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

“The book aims to revolutionize the way people think about the economic history of the past two centuries. It may well manage the feat.”
—The Economist

“Piketty’s Capital in the Twenty-First Century is an intellectual tour de force, a triumph of economic history over the theoretical, mathematical modeling that has come to dominate the economics profession in recent years.”
—Steven Pearlstein, Washington Post

“Piketty has written an extraordinarily important book...In its scale and sweep it brings us back to the founders of political economy.”
—Martin Wolf, Financial Times

“A sweeping account of rising inequality...Piketty has written a book that nobody interested in a defining issue of our era can afford to ignore.”
—John Cassidy, New Yorker

“Stands a fair chance of becoming the most influential work of economics yet published in our young century. It is the most important study of inequality in over fifty years.”
—Timothy Shenk, The Nation

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User Review  - RajivC - LibraryThing

This is an excellent book and one to be read a few times. In the concluding section of the book, Thomas Piketty admitted some of his conclusions are tenuous and should be debated. This is rare for an ...

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User Review  - paven - LibraryThing

Interesting views backed with science Is always an good read. This is not a light book to read. In some parts I revisited more than once during my first read through. I listened to from beginning to endit 3 times. It is solid research explaining how or economic system works. I great read.

Contents

• Introduction: 1
• Income and Capital: 47
• The Dynamics of the CapitalIncome Ratio: 139
• The Structure of Inequality: 295
• Regulating Capital in the TwentyFirst Century: 595
• Contents in Detail: 755
• List of Tables and Illustrations: 765
• Index: 771

About the author

Thomas Piketty was born in Clichy, France on May 7, 1971. He received a M.Sc. in mathematics at Ecole Normale Supérieure and a PhD in Economics at EHESS and at LSE. He is a professor at the Paris School of Economics. His articles have appeared in numerous journals including the Quarterly Journal of Economics, the Journal of Political Economy, the American Economic Review, and the Review of Economic Studies. He has written several books including Capital in the Twenty-First Century.

Arthur Goldhammer is the translator for numerous books including Neoconservatism: The Biography of a Movement, Algerian Chronicles, The Society of Equals, and Capital in the Twenty-First Century. He received the French-American Translation Prize in 1990 for his translation of A Critical Dictionary of the French Revolution.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Capital in the Twenty-First Century
• Author: Thomas Piketty
• Translated by: Arthur Goldhammer
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: Harvard University Press, 2017
• ISBN: 0674979850, 9780674979857
• Length: 816 pages
• Subjects: Business & Economics / Development / Economic Development; Business & Economics / Economic History; Business & Economics / Economics / Comparative; Business & Economics / Economics / Theory; Political Science / Public Policy / Economic Policy