Capital in the twenty-first century / (Record no. 679)

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Record control number 018384610
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International Standard Book Number 9780674979857 (pbk.)
International Standard Book Number 0674979850 (pbk.)
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System control number (OCoLC)997225376
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Classification number HB501
Item number .P497 2017
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Personal name Piketty, Thomas,
Dates associated with a name 1971-
245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT
Title Capital in the twenty-first century /
Statement of responsibility, etc. Thomas Piketty ; translated by Arthur Goldhammer.
250 ## - EDITION STATEMENT
Edition statement 1st Harvard University Press pbk. ed.
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC.
Place of publication, distribution, etc. London, England :
Name of publisher, distributor, etc. The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press,
Date of publication, distribution, etc. 2017.
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Extent ix, 793 p. :
Other physical details ill.
500 ## - GENERAL NOTE
General note Translation of: Le capital au XXIe siècle.
General note Reprint. Originally published: 2014.
504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE
Bibliography, etc. note Includes bibliographical references and index.
505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE
Formatted contents note Part I. Part I. Income and capital. Income and output ; Growth : illusions and realities -- Part II. The dynamics of the capital/income ratio. The metamorphoses of capital ; From old Europe to the new world ; The capital/income ratio over the long run ; The capital-labor split in the twenty-first century -- Part III. The structure of inequality. Inequality and concentration : preliminary bearings ; Two worlds ; Inequality of labor income ; Inequality of capital ownership ; Merit and inheritance in the long run ; Global inequality of wealth in the twenty-first century -- Part IV. Regulating capital in the twenty-first century. A social state for the twenty-first century ; Rethinking the progressive income tax ; A global tax on capital ; The question of the public debt.
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Summary, etc. 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 political economy. But satisfactory answers have been hard to find for lack of adequate data and clear guiding theories. In this work the author 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 transform debate and set the agenda for the next generation of thought about wealth and inequality. He 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. The main driver of inequality--the tendency of returns on capital to exceed the rate of economic growth--today threatens to generate extreme inequalities that stir discontent and undermine democratic values if political action is not taken. But economic trends are not acts of God. Political action has curbed dangerous inequalities in the past, the author says, and may do so again. This original work reorients our understanding of economic history and confronts us with sobering lessons for today.
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Topical term or geographic name entry element Capital.
Topical term or geographic name entry element Income distribution.
Topical term or geographic name entry element Wealth.
Topical term or geographic name entry element Labor economics.
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Personal name Goldhammer, Arthur.
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Uncontrolled related/analytical title Le capital au XXIe siècle.
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