Capital in the Twenty-First CenturyHarvard University Press, 14 ago 2017 - 816 pagine A New York Times #1 Bestseller |
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... social question in the United States today. In a way, the French Revolution of 1789 was more ambitious. It abolished all legal privileges and sought to create a political and social order based entirely on equality of rights and ...
... social inequalities are not in themselves a problem as long as they are justified, that is, “founded only upon common utility,” as article 1 of the 1789 Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen proclaims. (Although this ...
... social sciences. Economists are all too often preoccupied with petty mathematical problems of interest only to themselves. This obsession with mathematics is an easy way of acquiring the appearance of scientificity without having to ...
... social sciences and can advance only in conjunction with them. The social sciences collectively know too little to waste time on foolish disciplinary squabbles. If we are to progress in our understanding of the historical dynamics of ...
... social, and political forces determine the level of the capital/income ratio (β), capital's share in income (α), and the rate of return on capital (r), these three variables are not independent of one another. Conceptually, there are ...
Sommario
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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 |