Capital in the Twenty-First Century / / Thomas Piketty.
What are the grand dynamics that drive the accumulation and distribution of capital? Questions about the long-term evolution of inequality, the concentration of wealth, and the prospects for economic growth lie at the heart of political economy. But satisfactory answers have been hard to find for la...
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Piketty, Thomas, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Capital in the Twenty-First Century / Thomas Piketty. Pilot project,eBook available to selected US libraries only Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2014] ©2014 1 online resource (695 p.) : 96 graphs, 18 tables text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part One: Income and Capital -- 1. Income and Output -- 2. Growth: Illusions and Realities -- Part Two: The Dynamics of the Capital/Income Ratio -- 3. The Metamorphoses of Capital -- 4. From Old Europe to the New World -- 5. The Capital/Income Ratio over the Long Run -- 6. The Capital- Labor Split in the Twenty- First Century -- Part Three: The Structure of Inequality -- 7. Inequalityand Concentration: Preliminary Bearings -- 8. Two Worlds -- 9. Inequality of Labor Income -- 10. Inequality of Capital Own ership -- 11. Merit and Inheritance in the Long Run -- 12. Global Inequalityof Wealth in the Twenty- First Century -- Part Four: Regulating Capital in the Twenty- First Century -- 13. A Social State for the Twenty- First Century -- 14. Rethinking the Progressive Income Tax -- 15. A Global Tax on Capital -- 16. The Question of the Public Debt -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Contents in Detail -- Tables and Illustrations -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star What are the grand dynamics that drive the accumulation and distribution of capital? Questions about the long-term evolution of inequality, the concentration of wealth, and the prospects for economic growth lie at the heart of political economy. But satisfactory answers have been hard to find for lack of adequate data and clear guiding theories. In Capital in the Twenty-First Century, Thomas Piketty analyzes a unique collection of data from twenty countries, ranging as far back as the eighteenth century, to uncover key economic and social patterns. His findings will transform debate and set the agenda for the next generation of thought about wealth and inequality. Piketty shows that modern economic growth and the diffusion of knowledge have allowed us to avoid inequalities on the apocalyptic scale predicted by Karl Marx. But we have not modified the deep structures of capital and inequality as much as we thought in the optimistic decades following World War II. The main driver of inequality--the tendency of returns on capital to exceed the rate of economic growth--today threatens to generate extreme inequalities that stir discontent and undermine democratic values. But economic trends are not acts of God. Political action has curbed dangerous inequalities in the past, Piketty says, and may do so again. A work of extraordinary ambition, originality, and rigor, Capital in the Twenty-First Century reorients our understanding of economic history and confronts us with sobering lessons for today. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 01. Dez 2022) Capital. Income distribution. Labor economics. Wealth. BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economic History. bisacsh Best Economic Charts. C21. Capital in the 21st Century. Capital-labor split. Capitalism. Distribution of wealth. Economic Charts. Executive compensation. Global Wealth Tax. Global inequality of wealth. Global tax on capital. Income Inequality. National income. National wealth. Picketty. Progressive taxation. Rate of return on capital. Redistribution. Rentiers. Wage inequality. Wealth Inequality. Goldhammer, Arthur, contributor. ctb https://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ctb Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Harvard University Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015 9783110665901 https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674369542 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780674369542 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780674369542/original |
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