Capital in the Twenty-First Century
Thomas Piketty
This groundbreaking book takes a deep dive into economic history, analyzing the rising inequality of the past two centuries. Winner of multiple book awards and hailed by critics as an intellectual tour de force, it aims to revolutionize the way we think about wealth and its distribution. With sweeping insight and thorough research, the author presents an important study of inequality that cannot be ignored.
Publish Date
2014-03-10T00:00:00.000Z
2014-03-10T00:00:00.000Z
first published in 2013
Goodreads Rating
4.06
ISBN
9780674979857
Recommendations
5
Recommendations
2018-05-31T10:06:57.000Z
Five political/economics books that 🌅 🧠
- Origins of Political Order: Civilization = institutions
- Political Order / Decay: Gridlock is state failure
- Debt, First 5000 Years: Money != exchange
- Capital In 21st Century: Who gets growth?
- Wealth of Nations: Econ 101 – source2018-12-20T04:52:09.000Z
A few classics:
- Hope in the Dark, Solnit
- Why We Can’t Wait, MLK
- The Search for Common Ground, Thurman
- Team of Rivals, Goodwin
- Col Poems,Audre Lorde
- Bhagavad Gita
- Capital, Piketty
- 100 Years of Solitude, García Márquez
- Infinite Jest / Consider the Lobster, Wallace – source2020-10-07T04:45:45.000Z
Everyone who loves economics should read this book; for its depth of research, breadth of perspective, sweep of economic history and its analytical insights. It dismantles many erroneous beliefs about entrepreneurial meritocracy and state autonomy in rich countries! – source2014-02-26T04:53:16.000Z
@PapaRaspa: @Thomas Piketty's book Capital is must reading for inequality/poverty issues: @cafreeland" – source