Capital in the Twenty-First Century / / Thomas Piketty.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Harvard University Press Complete eBook-Package 2017
• VerfasserIn: Piketty, Thomas,
• MitwirkendeR: Goldhammer, Arthur,
• Place / Publishing House: Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2017]; ©2014
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (816 p.) :; 96 graphs, 18 tables

The main driver of inequality—returns on capital that exceed the rate of economic growth—is again threatening to generate extreme discontent and undermine democratic values. Thomas Piketty’s findings in this ambitious, original, rigorous work will transform debate and set the agenda for the next generation of thought about wealth and inequality.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Note on the Text -- 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. Inequality and Concentration: Preliminary Bearings -- 8. Two Worlds -- 9. Inequality of Labor Income -- 10. Inequality of Capital Ownership -- 11. Merit and Inheritance in the Long Run -- 12. Global Inequality of 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 -- Contents in Detail -- Tables and Illustrations -- Index