Thomas Piketty's book Capital in the Twenty-First Century has enjoyed great success and provides a new theory about wealth and inequality. However, there have been major criticisms of his work. Anti-Piketty: Capital for the 21st Century collects key criticisms from 20 specialists—economists, historians, and tax experts—who provide rigorous arguments against Piketty's work while examining the notions of inequality, growth, wealth, and capital.
Anti-Piketty: Capital for the 21st Century offers a resounding critique of Thomas Piketty's 2014 best-seller, Capital in the 21st Century.
The schooling rates cited here are taken from the data in J. Lee and H. Lee, “Human Capital in the Long-Run,” Journal of Development Economics, 2016, which relies on many earlier works. 53. “But, from the beginning, the originality of ...
Thomas Piketty’s findings in this ambitious, original, rigorous work will transform debate and set the agenda for the next generation of thought about wealth and inequality.
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In After Piketty, a cast of economists and other social scientists tackle these questions in dialogue with Piketty, in what is sure to be a much-debated book in its own right.
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Basé sur des arguments factuels et chiffrés, mais écrit dans un style tout piblic, "Anti-Piketty" est en quelque sorte le livre noir de la grande mystification économique du XXIe siècle.
A landmark in contemporary social science, this pioneering work by Thomas Piketty explains the facts and dynamics of income inequality in France in the twentieth century.
World Inequality Report 2022 is the most authoritative and comprehensive account of global trends in inequality, providing cutting-edge information about income and wealth inequality and also pioneering data about the history of inequality, ...