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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... decades following World War II. When the rate ofreturn on capi- tal exceeds the rate of growth of output and income, as it did in the nineteenth century and seems quite likely to do again in the twenty-first, capitalism auto- matically ...
... decades following World War II. When the rate ofreturn on capi- tal exceeds the rate of growth of output and income, as it did in the nineteenth century and seems quite likely to do again in the twenty-first, capitalism auto- matically ...
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... decades prior to the explosion of 1789. Although this demographic shift was not the sole cause of the French Revolution, it clearly contributed to the growing unpopularity of the aristocracy and the existing political regime ...
... decades prior to the explosion of 1789. Although this demographic shift was not the sole cause of the French Revolution, it clearly contributed to the growing unpopularity of the aristocracy and the existing political regime ...
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... decades. This could well be enough to destabilize entire soci- eties. The price system plays a key role in coordinating the activities of mil- lions of individuals—indeed, today, billions of individuals in the new global economy. The ...
... decades. This could well be enough to destabilize entire soci- eties. The price system plays a key role in coordinating the activities of mil- lions of individuals—indeed, today, billions of individuals in the new global economy. The ...
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... decades of the nineteenth century, as wages partly caught up with growth. The data we have assembled nevertheless reveal no structural decrease in ine- quality prior to World War I. What we see in the period 1870–1914 is at best a ...
... decades of the nineteenth century, as wages partly caught up with growth. The data we have assembled nevertheless reveal no structural decrease in ine- quality prior to World War I. What we see in the period 1870–1914 is at best a ...
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... decades, Marx labored over the voluminous treatise that would justify this conclusion and propose the first scientific analysis of capitalism and its collapse. This work would remain unfinished: the first vol- ume of Capital was ...
... decades, Marx labored over the voluminous treatise that would justify this conclusion and propose the first scientific analysis of capitalism and its collapse. This work would remain unfinished: the first vol- ume of Capital was ...
Sommario
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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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