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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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Harvard University Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015
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Place / Publishing House:Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2014]
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Year of Publication:2014
Edition:Pilot project,eBook available to selected US libraries only
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (695 p.) :; 96 graphs, 18 tables
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Table of Contents:
  • 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