Capital in the Twenty-First Century - Softcover

Piketty, Thomas

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0674979850 ISBN 13: 9780674979857

Publisher: Belknap Press: An Imprint of Harvard University Press, 2017

Synopsis

A New York Times #1 Bestseller
An Amazon #1 Bestseller
A Wall Street Journal #1 Bestseller
A USA Today Bestseller
A Sunday Times Bestseller
Winner of the Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award
Winner of the British Academy Medal
Finalist, National Book Critics Circle Award

“It seems safe to say that Capital in the Twenty-First Century, the magnum opus of the French economist Thomas Piketty, will be the most important economics book of the year―and maybe of the decade.”
―Paul Krugman, New York Times

“The book aims to revolutionize the way people think about the economic history of the past two centuries. It may well manage the feat.”
―The Economist

“Piketty’s Capital in the Twenty-First Century is an intellectual tour de force, a triumph of economic history over the theoretical, mathematical modeling that has come to dominate the economics profession in recent years.”
―Steven Pearlstein, Washington Post

“Piketty has written an extraordinarily important book...In its scale and sweep it brings us back to the founders of political economy.”
―Martin Wolf, Financial Times

“A sweeping account of rising inequality...Piketty has written a book that nobody interested in a defining issue of our era can afford to ignore.”
―John Cassidy, New Yorker

“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 Nation

About this title

About the Author:

Thomas Piketty is Director of Studies at L’École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales and Professor at the Paris School of Economics. He is the author of Capital in the Twenty-First Century.

Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.:

French economist Thomas Piketty is best known as an economic historian for his use of tax archives, census data, and other historical documents to analyze the distribution of income and wealth over time. At 696 pages, Piketty's new book, Capital in the Twenty-First Century, is his magnum opus, comprising his years of analysis of wealth and income history in the developed world. Piketty's exhaustive list of tables and graphs, which number more than 100, cover topics from the esoteric, such as the composition of Parisian portfolios (1872-1912); to inheritance transfers in Europe; to rates of return vs. growth (years 0-2100), and much, much more.

About this edition

• Publisher: Belknap Press: An Imprint of Harvard University Press
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 0674979850
• ISBN 13: 9780674979857
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 816