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Capital in the Twenty-First Century by Thomas Piketty, Arthur Goldhammer is a business book available to read on EtoBox.
What is Capital in the Twenty-First Century about?
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 the political economy. But satisfactory answers have been hard to find for a lack of adequate data and clear guiding theories. "Stands a fair chance of becoming the most influential work of economics yet published in our young century. It is the most important study of inequality in over fifty years." - Timothy Shenk, The NationIn Capital In The Twenty-First Century, Thomas Piketty analyzes a unique collection of data from twenty countries, ranging as far back as the eighteenth century, to uncover key economic and social patterns. His findings will transform debate and set the agenda for the next generation of thought about wealth and inequality. Thomas Piketty shows that modern economic growth and the diffusion of knowledge have allowed us to avoid inequalities on the apocalyptic scale predicted by Karl Marx. But we have not modified the deep structures of capital and inequality as much as we thought in the optimistic decades following World War II. "Piket
Who reads Capital in the Twenty-First Century?
It is typically read by working professionals who need an authoritative practice reference.
Common subject areas: medicine, law, business, engineering.
- Author
- Thomas Piketty, Arthur Goldhammer
- Publisher
- Belknap Press: An Imprint of Harvard University Press
- Published
- 2017
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780674982925
- Category
- business
- Subjects
- History, Economics, Business
- Rating
- 4.02 / 5 (1,278 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-13