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100			_aPiketty, Thomas _9285911
245			_aCapital in the twenty-first century _cPiketty, Thomas
260			_c2014 _bThe Belknap Press of Harvard University Press _aCambridge
300			_aviii, 685 p.
365			_aINR _b1495.00
520			_aIn 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. (http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674430006)
650			_aCapital
650			_aIncome distribution
650			_aWealth
650			_aLabor economics
700			_aGoldhammer, Arthur _eTranslator _9285916
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