Capital in the Twenty-First CenturyHarvard University Press, 14 ago 2017 - 816 pagine A New York Times #1 Bestseller |
Dall'interno del libro
... annual rate of return on capital, including profits, dividends, interest, rents, and other income from capital, expressed as a percentage of its total value, and g stands for the rate of growth of the economy, that is, the annual ...
... annual flow of income. This gives us the capital/income ratio, which I denote by the Greek letter β. For example, if a country's total capital stock is the equivalent of six years of national income, we write β=6 (or β=600%). In the ...
... annual income or even more. The capital/income ratio for the country as a whole tells us nothing about inequalities within the country. But β does measure the overall importance of capital in a society, so analyzing this ratio is a ...
... annual return on capital of 5 percent. Once again, I am speaking here only of averages: some individuals receive far more than 9,000 euros per year in income from capital, while others receive nothing while paying rent to their ...
... annual rent) is so taken for granted that it often goes unmentioned. Contemporary readers were well aware that it took capital on the order of 1 million francs to produce an annual rent of 50,000 francs. For nineteenth-century novelists ...
Sommario
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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 |