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Capital in the twenty-first century / Thomas Piketty ; translated by Arthur Goldhammer.

By: Contributor(s): Language: English Original language: French Publisher: Cambridge Massachusetts : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2014Description: viii, 685 pages : charts ; 25 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780674430006
Uniform titles:
  • Capital au XXIe sieÌcle. English
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 332/.041 23
LOC classification:
  • HB501 .P43613 2014
Contents:
Income and output -- Growth : illusions and realities -- The metamorphoses of capital -- From old Europe to the new world -- The long-run capital/income ratio -- Capital's share vs. labor's share in the twenty-first century -- Inequality and concentration : an initial orientation -- The two worlds -- Inequality in the income from labor -- Inequality in the ownership of capital -- Merit and inheritance in the long run -- Global inequality of wealth 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.

Translation of the author's Le capital au XXIe sieÌcle.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Income and output -- Growth : illusions and realities -- The metamorphoses of capital -- From old Europe to the new world -- The long-run capital/income ratio -- Capital's share vs. labor's share in the twenty-first century -- Inequality and concentration : an initial orientation -- The two worlds -- Inequality in the income from labor -- Inequality in the ownership of capital -- Merit and inheritance in the long run -- Global inequality of wealth 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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