عنوان

Capital in the twenty-first century /

شابک

0674369548

شابک

067443000X

شابک

9780674369542

شابک

9780674430006

شماره

dltt

عنوان اصلي

Capital in the twenty-first century /

نام عام مواد

[Book]

نام نخستين پديدآور

Thomas Piketty ; translated by Arthur Goldhammer

نام خاص و کميت اثر

viii, 685 pages :

ساير جزييات

illustrations ;

ابعاد

25 cm

متن يادداشت

Translation of the author's Le capital au XXIe siècle

متن يادداشت

Includes bibliographical references (pages 579-655) and index

متن يادداشت

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

عنوان قراردادي

Capital au XXIe siècle.

زبان(وقتي جزئي از عنوان قراردادي باشد)

English

موضوع مستند نشده

Capital

موضوع مستند نشده

Income distribution

موضوع مستند نشده

Labor economics

موضوع مستند نشده

Wealth

شماره رده

شماره رده

نشانه اثر

نشانه اثر

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Piketty, Thomas,1971-

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Goldhammer, Arthur

تاريخ عمليات

20151202125900.0

قواعد فهرست نويسي ( بخش توصيفي )

rda

نام الکترونيکي

نوع ماده

[Book]

تكميل شده

Y