Capital in the Twenty-First CenturyHarvard University Press, 14 ago 2017 - 816 pagine A New York Times #1 Bestseller |
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... A Social State for the Twenty-First Century . 597 14. Rethinking the Progressive Income Tax . 630 15. A Global Tax on Capital . 663 16. The Question of the Public Debt . 700 Conclusion . 746 Contents in Detail . 755 List of Contents.
... public debt and the related issue of the optimal accumulation of public capital at a time when natural capital may be deteriorating. One final word. It would have been quite presumptuous in 1913 to publish a book called “Capital in the ...
... (debt).9 If we look only at the assets and liabilities of private individuals, the result is private wealth or private capital. If we consider assets and liabilities held by the government and other governmental entities (such as towns ...
... public debt is sometimes much lower. The formula α =r× β tells us nothing about these subtleties, but it does tell us how to relate these three quantities, which can be useful for framing discussion. For example, in the wealthy ...
... public debt due to those wars.17 In France at about the same time, Alfred de Foville and Clément Colson published estimates of “national wealth” and “private wealth,” and, like Giffen, both writers also marveled at the considerable ...
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 |