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Capital in the Twenty-First Century

Thomas Piketty

  • Bindwijze: Luisterboek op CD
  • Taal: en
  • Categorie: Mens & Maatschappij
  • ISBN: 9781491591604
Winner of the Financial Times & McKinsey Business Book of the year Award 2014
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Taal:en
Bindwijze:Luisterboek op CD
Oorspronkelijke releasedatum:17 februari 2015
Illustraties:Nee
Betrokkenen
Hoofdauteur:Thomas Piketty
Tweede Auteur:Arthur Goldhammer
Verteller:L J Ganser
Verteller:L J Ganser
Vertaling
Eerste Vertaler:Arthur Goldhammer
Tweede Vertaler:Arthur Goldhammer
Co Vertaler(s):Goldhammer, Arthur
Originele titel:Capital in the Twenty-First Century
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Extra groot lettertype:Nee
Product breedte:140 mm
Product hoogte:13 mm
Product lengte:171 mm
Studieboek:Ja
Verpakking breedte:165 mm
Verpakking hoogte:43 mm
Verpakking lengte:137 mm
Verpakkingsgewicht:454 g
eWaste:Nee
Overige kenmerken
Extra groot lettertype:Nee
Product breedte:140 mm
Product hoogte:13 mm
Product lengte:171 mm
Studieboek:Ja
Verpakking breedte:165 mm
Verpakking hoogte:43 mm
Verpakking lengte:137 mm
Verpakkingsgewicht:454 g
eWaste:Nee

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 apocalyptic 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.

A work of extraordinary ambition, originality, and rigor, Capital in the Twenty-First Century reorients our understanding of economic history and confronts us with sobering lessons for today.