Capital in the Twenty-First Century

Beschreibung

A New York Times #1 Bestseller<BR>A Wall Street Journal #1 Bestseller<BR>A USA Today Bestseller<BR>A Sunday Times Bestseller<BR>A Guardian Best Book of the 21st Century<BR>Winner of the Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award<BR>Winner of the British Academy Medal<BR>Finalist, National Book Critics Circle Award<BR><BR>"It seems safe to say that Capital in the Twenty-First Century, the magnum opus of the French economist Thomas Piketty, will be the most important economics book of the year-and maybe of the decade."<BR>-Paul Krugman, New York Times<BR><BR>"The book aims to revolutionize the way people think about the economic history of the past two centuries.

It may well manage the feat."<BR>-The Economist<BR><BR>"Piketty's Capital in the Twenty-First Century is an intellectual tour de force, a triumph of economic history over the theoretical, mathematical modeling that has come to dominate the economics profession in recent years."<BR>-Steven Pearlstein, Washington Post<BR><BR>"Piketty has written an extraordinarily important book...In its scale and sweep it brings us back to the founders of political economy."<BR>-Martin Wolf, Financial Times<BR><BR>"A sweeping account of rising inequality...Piketty has written a book that nobody interested in a defining issue of our era can afford to ignore."<BR>-John Cassidy, New Yorker<BR><BR>"Stands a fair chance of becoming the most influential work of economics yet published in our young century.

It is the most important study of inequality in over fifty years."<BR>-Timothy Shenk, The Nation

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