Capital in the Twenty-First CenturyHarvard University Press, 14 ago 2017 - 816 pagine A New York Times #1 Bestseller |
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... population of 20 million in 1700, compared to only 8 million for Great Britain (and 5 million for England alone). The French population increased steadily throughout the eighteenth century, from the end of Louis XIV's reign to the ...
... population growth contributed to a stagnation of agricultural wages and an increase in land rents in the decades prior to the explosion of 1789. Although this demographic shift was not the sole cause of the French Revolution, it clearly ...
... population and output begin to grow steadily, land tends to become increasingly scarce relative to other goods. The law of supply and demand then implies that the price of land will rise continuously, as will the rents paid to landlords ...
... population so extensive that they could easily come to own everything that can be owned, including rural real estate and bicycles, once and for all.3 As always, the worst is never certain to arrive. It is much too soon to warn readers ...
... population partakes of the fruits of economic growth.14 The “advanced phase” of industrial development is supposed to have. 14. See Kuznets, Shares of Upper Income Groups, 12–18. The Kuznets curve is sometimes referred to as “the ...
Sommario
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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 |