Thomas Piketty's Capital in the twenty-first century

an introduction

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Stephan Kaufmann: Thomas Piketty's Capital in the twenty-first century (2017)

85 pages

English language

Published Nov. 12, 2017

ISBN:
978-1-78478-614-4
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OCLC Number:
991171514

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US Nobel Prize winner Paul Krugman described Thomas Piketty's Capital in the Twenty-First Century as "perhaps the most important book of the last decade". It has sparked major international debates, dominated bestseller lists and generated a level of enthusiasm -- as well as intense criticism -- in a way no other recent economic or sociological work has. Piketty has been described as a new Karl Marx and placed in the same league as the economist John Maynard Keynes. The 'rock star economist's' (Financial Times) underlying thesis: inequality under capitalism has reached dramatic proportions in the last few decades and continues to grow -- and not by coincidence. Thus, a small elite becomes simultaneously richer and richer and more and more powerful. Given the sensational reception of the not-so-easily digested 800-page study that spans back to the eighteenth century, the question as to where the hype around Piketty's book comes from …

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  • Capitalism