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Understanding Piketty's Capital in the Twenty-First Century (Paperback)
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Understanding Piketty's Capital in the Twenty-First Century (Paperback)
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Thomas Piketty's Capital in the Twenty-First Century reached the
top of most best-seller lists last year shortly after it was
released. Nonetheless, few people actually read the book. Yet
reviewers have agreed that the book is important because it touches
on one of the major problems facing the US economy, the UK economy
and many developed nations: rising income and wealth inequality. It
also provides an explanation of the problem and a policy solution:
a global wealth tax. This book is intended to do three things.
First, it provides a summary of the argument of Piketty's book,
which many people have bought and few people have read. Second, it
fills in some of the gaps in the book, by providing readers with
the background that is needed to understand the volume and the
argument. This background information discusses economic data
sources, measures of inequality and why income inequality is such
an important issue today. Finally, the work provides a defense of
Piketty's analysis and at times some criticism of his work.
Pressman explains why the problem of rising inequality is
important, where Piketty's data comes from, and the strengths and
weaknesses of that data. It defends Piketty's inequality, r>g,
as the reason inequality has risen over the past several decades in
many developed nations. Using Piketty's own data, this book argues
that rising inequality is not just a characteristic of capitalism,
but results from different growth rates for income and wealth,
which can occur under any type of economic system. Understanding
Piketty's Capital in the Twenty-First Century is the ideal
introduction to one of the most important books of recent years for
anyone interested in Piketty's work and the inevitability of
inequality.
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