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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... evolution of income inequality. Emman- uel and I dealt with the US case. We discovered the vertiginous growth of in- come of the top 1 percent since the 1970s and 1980s, and our work enjoyed a certain influence in US political debate ...
... evolution of income inequality. Emman- uel and I dealt with the US case. We discovered the vertiginous growth of in- come of the top 1 percent since the 1970s and 1980s, and our work enjoyed a certain influence in US political debate ...
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... evolution of the capital/income ratio in wealthy coun- tries, which plays a key role in this book. I also want to thank the institutions that made this project possible, starting with the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales ...
... evolution of the capital/income ratio in wealthy coun- tries, which plays a key role in this book. I also want to thank the institutions that made this project possible, starting with the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales ...
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... evolution over the long term? Do the dynamics of private capital accumulation inevitably lead to the concentration ... evolved since the eighteenth century, and what lessons can we derive from that knowledge for the century now under way ...
... evolution over the long term? Do the dynamics of private capital accumulation inevitably lead to the concentration ... evolved since the eighteenth century, and what lessons can we derive from that knowledge for the century now under way ...
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... evolution of the dis- tribution of wealth and class structure of society. This was true in particular of David Ricardo and Karl Marx, who were surely the two most influential economists of the nineteenth century and who both believed ...
... evolution of the dis- tribution of wealth and class structure of society. This was true in particular of David Ricardo and Karl Marx, who were surely the two most influential economists of the nineteenth century and who both believed ...
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... evolution over time. To be sure, the first attempts to estimate national income in Britain and France date back to the late seventeenth and early eighteenth century, and there would be many more such attempts over the course of the ...
... evolution over time. To be sure, the first attempts to estimate national income in Britain and France date back to the late seventeenth and early eighteenth century, and there would be many more such attempts over the course of the ...
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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