This volume of essays builds upon renewed interest in the long-run global development of wealth and inequality stimulated by the publication of Thomas Piketty's Capital in the Twenty-First Century.
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.
This book lays out the argument of Piketty's monumental work in a compact and understandable format, while also investigating the controversies that this book has caused.
The “rock star economist’s” underlying thesis is that inequality under capitalism has reached dramatic levels in the last few decades and continues to grow—and that this is not by chance.
Piketty has written a book that nobody interested in a defining issue of our era can afford to ignore.” —John Cassidy, New Yorker “Stands a fair chance of becoming the most influential work of economics yet published in our young ...
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.
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, ...
"David Harvey examines the internal contradictions within the flow of capital that have precipitated recent crises.
The proper conclusion is that these phenomena can and should be considered fresh shoots of postmarket and ... of view of the above-mentioned new criteria, becoming increasingly relevant with the advance towards post-industrial society.
The Central Contradiction of Capitalism?: A Collection of Essays on Capital in the Twenty-First Century
Global Capitalism guides the reader from the globalization of the early twentieth century and its swift collapse in the crises of 1914–45, to the return to global integration at the end of the century, and the subsequent retreat in the ...