Capital in the Twenty-First CenturyHarvard University Press, 14 ago 2017 - 816 pagine A New York Times #1 Bestseller |
Dall'interno del libro
... role for research that is at least systematic and methodical if not fully scientific. Expert analysis will never put an end to the violent political conflict that inequality inevitably instigates. Social scientific research is and ...
... role in coordinating the activities of millions of individuals—indeed, today, billions of individuals in the new global economy. The problem is that the price system knows neither limits nor morality. It would be a serious mistake to ...
... role in this study, because the significance of inequalities of wealth differs depending on whether those inequalities derive from inherited wealth or savings. In this book, I focus not only on the level of inequality as such but to an ...
... role of technology in the history of ideas, the purely technical issues are worth a moment's reflection. Objectively speaking, it was far more difficult to deal with large volumes of historical data in Kuznets's time than it is today ...
... role in this book. In a sense, it sums up the overall logic of my conclusions. When the rate of return on capital significantly exceeds the growth rate of the economy (as it did through much of history until the nineteenth century and ...
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 |