After Piketty : : The Agenda for Economics and Inequality / / ed. by Heather Boushey, J. Bradford DeLong, Marshall Steinbaum.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Harvard University Press Complete eBook-Package 2017
• MitwirkendeR: Berry, Daina Ramey,; Boushey, Heather,; De Nardi, Mariacristina,; Delong, J. Bradford,; Derenoncourt, Ellora,; Fella, Giulio,; Goldhammer, Arthur,; Grewal, David Singh,; Jacobs, Elisabeth,; Jones, Gareth A.,; Krugman, Paul,; Lakner, Christoph,; Milanovic, Branko,; Morelli, Salvatore,; Naidu, Suresh,; Nielsen, Eric R.,; Piketty, Thomas,; Raval, Devesh,; Saez, Emmanuel,; Solow, Robert M.,; Spence, Michael,; Steinbaum, Marshall I.,; Steinbaum, Marshall,; Tyson, Laura,; Weil, David,; Yang, Fang,; Zandi, Mark,
• HerausgeberIn: Boushey, Heather,; DeLong, J. Bradford,; Steinbaum, Marshall,
• Place / Publishing House: Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2018]; ©2017
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Edition: Pilot project. eBook available to selected US libraries only
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (688 p.) :; 8 halftones, 2 line illustrations, 41 graphs, 7 tables

Thomas Piketty’s Capital in the Twenty-First Century is the most widely discussed work of economics in recent history, selling millions of copies in dozens of languages. But are its analyses of inequality and economic growth on target? Where should researchers go from here in exploring the ideas Piketty pushed to the forefront of global conversation? A cast of economists and other social scientists tackle these questions in dialogue with Piketty, in what is sure to be a much-debated book in its own right. After Piketty opens with a discussion by Arthur Goldhammer, the book’s translator, of the reasons for Capital’s phenomenal success, followed by the published reviews of Nobel laureates Paul Krugman and Robert Solow. The rest of the book is devoted to newly commissioned essays that interrogate Piketty’s arguments. Suresh Naidu and other contributors ask whether Piketty said enough about power, slavery, and the complex nature of capital. Laura Tyson and Michael Spence consider the impact of technology on inequality. Heather Boushey, Branko Milanovic, and others consider topics ranging from gender to trends in the global South. Emmanuel Saez lays out an agenda for future research on inequality, while a variety of essayists examine the book’s implications for the social sciences more broadly. Piketty replies to these questions in a substantial concluding chapter. An indispensable interdisciplinary work, After Piketty does not shy away from the seemingly intractable problems that made Capital in the Twenty-First Century so compelling for so many.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction. Capital in the Twenty-First Century, Three Years Later -- I. Reception -- 1. The Piketty Phenomenon -- 2. Thomas Piketty Is Right -- 3. Why We’re in a New Gilded Age -- II. Conceptions of Capital -- 4. What’s Wrong with Capital in the Twenty-First Century’s Model? -- 5. A Political Economy Take on W / Y -- 6. The Ubiquitous Nature of Slave Capital -- 7. Human Capital and Wealth before and after Capital in the Twenty-First Century -- 8. Exploring the Effects of Technology on Income and Wealth Inequality -- 9. Income Inequality, Wage Determination, and the Fissured Workplace -- III. Dimensions of Inequality -- 10. Increasing Capital Income Share and Its Effect on Personal Income Inequality -- 11. Global Inequality -- 12. The Geographies of Capital in the Twenty- First Century: Inequality, Political Economy, and Space -- 13. The Research Agenda after Capital in the Twenty-First Century -- 14. Macro Models of Wealth Inequality -- 15. A Feminist Interpretation of Patrimonial Capitalism -- 16. What Does Rising Inequality Mean for the Macroeconomy? -- 17. Rising Inequality and Economic Stability -- IV. The Political Economy of Capital and Capitalism -- 18. Inequality and the Rise of Social Democracy: An Ideological History -- 19. The Legal Constitution of Capitalism -- 20. The Historical Origins of Global Inequality -- 21. Everywhere and Nowhere: Politics in Capital in the Twenty-First Century -- V. Piketty Responds -- 22. Toward a Reconciliation between Economics and the Social Sciences -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index