by Thomas Piketty · Belknap Press: An Imprint of Harvard University Press · tapa dura · ISBN 9780674430006
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«Capital in the Twenty-First Century» is the economic essay by Thomas Piketty, published by Belknap Press in hardback (704 pages, in English).
Thomas Piketty analyses the evolution of wealth and inequality with data from twenty countries since the eighteenth century. He argues that when the return on capital exceeds economic growth, wealth concentrates. He proposes policies such as progressive taxation and a global tax on capital.
English translation by Arthur Goldhammer of the original French work «Le Capital au XXIe siècle». Illustrated edition published in 2014.
For readers of economics, history and public policy, with an interest in the current debate on inequality.
Thomas Piketty is a French economist who is a professor of economics at the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences, associate chair at the Paris School of Economics (PSE) and Centennial Professor of Economics in the International Inequalities Institute at the London School of Economics (LSE).
