Twenty-first century inequality & capitalism : : Piketty, Marx and beyond / / edited by Lauren Langman and David A. Smith.

• Superior document: Studies in Critical Social Sciences, Volume 116
• TeilnehmendeR: Smith, David Alden,; Langman, Lauren, 1940-
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, Netherlands ;, Boston, Massachusetts : : Brill,, 2018.; ©2018
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Studies in critical social sciences ; Volume 116.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (412 pages) :; illustrations (some color), tables.
• Notes: Includes index.

Twenty-First Century Inequality andamp; Capitalism: Piketty, Marx and Beyond is a collection that begins with economist Thomas Piketty’s 2014 book. Most chapters critique Piketty from the perspective of critical theory, global political economy or public sociology, drawing on the work of Karl Marx o...

Table of Contents

• Introduction / Lauren Langman and David A. Smith
• Broad Reviews and Critiques
• Class and Inequality in Piketty1 / Eric Olin Wright
• Vautrin’s Lesson: Historical Trends, Universal Challenges, and Policy Responses / Basak Kus and Dana Louie
• Turning Piketty into a Sociologist? / Sylvia Walby
• Predatory Logics: Going Well beyond Inequality / Saskia Sassen
• Complex Inequalities in the Age of Financialisation: Piketty, Marx, and Class-Biased Power Resources / Eoin Flaherty
• Piketty and Patrimonialism: A Frankfurt School Critique of Piketty’s Use of Marx, Weber, Political Economy, and Comparative Historical Sociology / J. I. (Hans) Bakker
• The Missing Element in Piketty’s Work / Roslyn Wallach Bologh
• Critical Theory, Radical Reform, and Planetary Sociology: Between Impossibility and Inevitability / Harry F. Dahms
• Inequality
• Beyond Piketty’s Economism: History, Culture, and the Critique of Inequality1 / Daniel Krier and Kevin S. Amidon
• Accounting for Inequality: Questioning Piketty on National Income Accounts and the Capital-Labor Split / Charles Reitz
• The Political Dimensions of Economic Division: Republicanism, Social Justice, and the Evaluation of Economic Inequality / Michael J. Thompson
• Global Inequality
• Piketty on the World Market and Inequality within Nations / Tony Smith
• Capitalism in the Twenty-First Century: Global Inequality, Piketty, and the Transnational Capitalist Class / William I. Robinson
• The Piketty Challenge:Global Inequality and World Revolutions / Christopher Chase-Dunn and Sandor Nagy
• Global Inequality, Competition, Uncertainty, and the Legitimation Crisis of Neoliberalism / Alessandro Bonanno
• The Piketty Thesis and the Environmental Wall: Rentier Society, Post- Carbon Democracy, or Apocalyptic Ruin?1 / Robert J. Antonio
• The Adventures of Professor Piketty: In Which We Meet the Intrepid Data-Hunter Thomas Piketty and Hear His Startling Story / David Norman Smith and Tom Johnson
• 21st Century Capital: Falling Profit Rates and System Entropy / David Norman Smith
• From Inequality to Social Justice / Peter Marcuse
• Conclusion: Capitalism, Contradiction, and Crisis / Lauren Langman and David A. Smith.