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100 1 $aPiketty, Thomas,$d1971-$eauthor.
240 10 $aCapital au XXIe siècle.$lEnglish
245 10 $aCapital in the twenty-first century /$cThomas Piketty ; translated by Arthur Goldhammer.
250 $aFirst Harvard University Press paperback edition.
264 1 $aLondon, England :$bThe Belknap Press of Harvard University Press,$c2017.
300 $aix, 793 pages :$billustrations ;$c22 cm
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500 $aTranslation of the author's Le capital au XXIe siècle.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 00 $gPart I.$tIncome and capital.$tIncome and output ;$tGrowth : illusions and realities --$gPart II.$tThe dynamics of the capital/income ratio.$tThe metamorphoses of capital ;$tFrom old Europe to the new world ;$tThe capital/income ratio over the long run ;$tThe capital-labor split in the twenty-first century --$gPart III.$tThe structure of inequality.$tInequality and concentration : preliminary bearings ;$tTwo worlds ;$tInequality of labor income ;$tInequality of capital ownership ;$tMerit and inheritance in the long run ;$tGlobal inequality of wealth in the twenty-first century --$gPart IV.$tRegulating capital in the twenty-first century.$tA social state for the twenty-first century ;$tRethinking the progressive income tax ;$tA global tax on capital ;$tThe question of the public debt.
520 $aWhat 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.
650 0 $aCapital.
650 0 $aIncome distribution.
650 0 $aWealth.
650 0 $aLabor economics.
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650 7 $aLabor economics.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst00989943
650 7 $aWealth.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01172973
655 4 $aNonfiction.
700 1 $aGoldhammer, Arthur,$etranslator.
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