Capital in the Twenty-First CenturyThe main driver of inequality—returns on capital that exceed the rate of economic growth—is again threatening to generate extreme discontent and undermine democratic values. Thomas Piketty’s findings in this ambitious, original, rigorous work will transform debate and set the agenda for the next generation of thought about wealth and inequality. |
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Or do the balancing forces of growth, competition, and technological progress
lead in later stages of development to reduced inequality and greater harmony
among the classes, as Simon Kuznets thought in the twentieth century? What do
we ...
Or do the balancing forces of growth, competition, and technological progress
lead in later stages of development to reduced inequality and greater harmony
among the classes, as Simon Kuznets thought in the twentieth century? What do
we ...
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It was not until the twentieth century, in the years between the two world wars,
that the first yearly series of national income data were developed by economists
such as Kuznets and John W. Kendrick in the United States, Arthur Bowley and ...
It was not until the twentieth century, in the years between the two world wars,
that the first yearly series of national income data were developed by economists
such as Kuznets and John W. Kendrick in the United States, Arthur Bowley and ...
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See Anthony Atkinson and Thomas Piketty, Top Incomes over the Twentieth
Century: A Contrast between Continental-European and English-Speaking
Countries (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007), and Top Incomes: A Global
Perspective ...
See Anthony Atkinson and Thomas Piketty, Top Incomes over the Twentieth
Century: A Contrast between Continental-European and English-Speaking
Countries (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007), and Top Incomes: A Global
Perspective ...
Pagina 44
The purpose of Part Four, titled “Regulating Capital in the TwentyFirst Century”
and consisting of four chapters, is to draw normative ... It would have been quite
presumptuous in 1913 to publish a book called “Capital in the Twentieth Century.
The purpose of Part Four, titled “Regulating Capital in the TwentyFirst Century”
and consisting of four chapters, is to draw normative ... It would have been quite
presumptuous in 1913 to publish a book called “Capital in the Twentieth Century.
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For one thing, the capital-labor split varied widely over the course of the twentieth
century. The changes observed in the nineteenth century, which I touched on in
the Introduction (an increase in the capital share in the first half of the century, ...
For one thing, the capital-labor split varied widely over the course of the twentieth
century. The changes observed in the nineteenth century, which I touched on in
the Introduction (an increase in the capital share in the first half of the century, ...
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Sommario
| 1 | |
| 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 |
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Informazioni bibliografiche
| Titolo | Capital in the Twenty-First Century |
| Autore | Thomas Piketty |
| Editore | Harvard University Press, 2017 |
| ISBN | 0674982932, 9780674982932 |
| Lunghezza | 816 pagine |
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