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

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 Pik...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Harvard University Press Complete eBook-Package 2017
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Place / Publishing House:Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2018]
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Year of Publication:2018
Edition:Pilot project. eBook available to selected US libraries only
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (688 p.) :; 8 halftones, 2 line illustrations, 41 graphs, 7 tables
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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