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Capital in the Twenty-First Century

Door Thomas Piketty

Categorie	Economie & Management
Boeknummer	#351237-ZB12
Titel	Capital in the Twenty-First Century
Auteur	Piketty, Thomas
Boektype	Gebonden hardcover met stofomslag
Uitgeverij	The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Jaar van uitgave	2014
ISBN10	067443000X
ISBN13	9780674430006
Taal	Engels
Beschrijving	Original gilt lettered boards, dust jacket, 8vo.
Samenvatting	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 Capital in the Twenty-First Century, "Thomas Piketty 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 will transform debate and set the agenda for the next generation of thought about wealth and inequality. Piketty shows that modern economic growth and the diffusion of knowledge have allowed us to avoid inequalities on the a... (Lees verder)pocalyptic 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. But economic trends are not acts of God. Political action has curbed dangerous inequalities in the past, Piketty says, and may do so again.
Pagina's	685
Conditie	Goed
Prijs	€ 10,00

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