Capital in the Twenty-First Century (Hardcover)

from lbeaumont

After nearly 600 pages of charts, graphs, tables, arguments, and counterarguments, Thomas Piketty states his conclusions simply. Wealth accumulated in the past grows more rapidly than output and wages. He expresses this in the equation r>g and identifies this as the central contradiction of capit...

from mbmackay

A very interesting book and wonderfully thought provoking. Piketty has gathered an an amazing mass of data on income and wealth across time and countries. He shows that wealth was highly concentrated in Europe before WW1 and is now becoming almost as highly concentrated. While his research and da...

from rayski

It was a long and at times very difficult read. For one, don't get the eBook if you're using an old eBook reader like me. The facts he uses to back his theories are all in literally hundreds of graphs. On my old Kindle these were impossible to read as I found myself running to Piketty's website t...

from LynnB

In explaining complex ideas, the basic structure of what, so what, now what works well. I found this book unbalanced: a lot of "what" -- very well researched and presented -- but light on the implications and solutions. Mr. Piketty calls for a wealth tax to end income inequality without clearing ...

from Dilip-Kumar

To finish reading the whole of this massive work is itself a great achievement; one only wonders at the effort that must have gone into its creation! The work amasses a wealth of data on incomes and wealth, mainly of the western countries and Japan. It demonstrates that inequalities in wealth, an...