Capital in the Twenty-First CenturyHarvard University Press, 10 mar 2014 - 685 pagine The 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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... French Revolution to the present. This work helped me to understand in a more intimate and vivid way the significance of wealth and capital and the problems associated with measuring them. Above all, Gilles and Jean-Laurent taught me to ...
... French Revolution to the present. This work helped me to understand in a more intimate and vivid way the significance of wealth and capital and the problems associated with measuring them. Above all, Gilles and Jean-Laurent taught me to ...
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... French. Revolution. When classical political economy was born in England and France in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century, the issue of distribution was already one of the key questions. Everyone realized that radical ...
... French. Revolution. When classical political economy was born in England and France in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century, the issue of distribution was already one of the key questions. Everyone realized that radical ...
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... French countryside. His vivid essay was by no means totally inaccurate. France at that time was by far the most populous country in Europe and therefore an ideal place to observe. The kingdom could already boast of a population of 20 ...
... French countryside. His vivid essay was by no means totally inaccurate. France at that time was by far the most populous country in Europe and therefore an ideal place to observe. The kingdom could already boast of a population of 20 ...
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... French cases turn out to be particularly significant, be- cause the most complete long-run historical sources pertain to these two countries. We have multiple estimates ofboth the magnitude and structure of national wealth for Britain ...
... French cases turn out to be particularly significant, be- cause the most complete long-run historical sources pertain to these two countries. We have multiple estimates ofboth the magnitude and structure of national wealth for Britain ...
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... French Revolution did not create ajust or ideal society, but it did make it possible to observe the structure of wealth in unprecedented detail. The sys- tem established in the 1790s for recording wealth in land, buildings, and fi ...
... French Revolution did not create ajust or ideal society, but it did make it possible to observe the structure of wealth in unprecedented detail. The sys- tem established in the 1790s for recording wealth in land, buildings, and fi ...
Sommario
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37 | |
The Dynamics Of The CapitalIncome Ratio | 111 |
The Structure Of In Equality | 235 |
Regulating Capital In The Twenty First Century | 469 |
Conclusion | 571 |
Notes | 579 |
Contents in Detail | 657 |
Tables and Illustrations | 665 |
Index | 671 |
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