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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... possible, starting with the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, where I have served on the faculty since 2000, as well as the École Normale Supérieure and all the other institutions that contributed to the creation of the ...
... possible, starting with the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, where I have served on the faculty since 2000, as well as the École Normale Supérieure and all the other institutions that contributed to the creation of the ...
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... possible to avoid the Marxist apocalypse but have not modified the deep structures of capital and inequality—or in any case not as much as one might have imagined in the optimistic decades following World War II. When the rate ofreturn ...
... possible to avoid the Marxist apocalypse but have not modified the deep structures of capital and inequality—or in any case not as much as one might have imagined in the optimistic decades following World War II. When the rate ofreturn ...
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... possible. Marx's dark prophecy came no closer to being realized than Ricardo's. In the last third of the nineteenth century, wages finally began to increase: the improvement in the purchasing power of workers spread everywhere, and this ...
... possible. Marx's dark prophecy came no closer to being realized than Ricardo's. In the last third of the nineteenth century, wages finally began to increase: the improvement in the purchasing power of workers spread everywhere, and this ...
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... possible a set of historical data for the purpose of understand- ing past and present trends. For it is by patiently establishing facts and pat- terns and then comparing different countries that we can hope to identify the mechanisms at ...
... possible a set of historical data for the purpose of understand- ing past and present trends. For it is by patiently establishing facts and pat- terns and then comparing different countries that we can hope to identify the mechanisms at ...
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... possible to collect and compare esti- mates for different periods and thus push the analysis back to the early eigh- teenth century, which allows us to view the Industrial Revolution in relation to the history ofcapital. For this I will ...
... possible to collect and compare esti- mates for different periods and thus push the analysis back to the early eigh- teenth century, which allows us to view the Industrial Revolution in relation to the history ofcapital. For this I will ...
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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