Titre : |
Capital in the twenty-first century |
Type de document : |
texte imprimé |
Auteurs : |
Thomas Piketty (1971-....) ; Arthur Goldhammer, Traducteur |
Editeur : |
Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press |
Année de publication : |
2014 |
Importance : |
VIII-685 p. |
Présentation : |
fig., tabl. |
Format : |
25 cm |
ISBN/ISSN/EAN : |
978-0-674-43000-6 |
Note générale : |
Notes bibliogr. Index |
Langues : |
Anglais (eng) Langues originales : Français (fre) |
Descripteurs : |
21e siècle , Accumulation du capital , Capital (Théorie) , Capitalisme , Productivité du capital , Redistribution des revenus , Revenu , Revenu (Théorie) , Richesse
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Index. décimale : |
61 Économie générale |
Résumé : |
This book 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. It 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... [D'après le résumé de l'éditeur] |
En ligne : |
http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674430006 |
Permalink : |
https://genes.bibli.fr/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=109882 |
Capital in the twenty-first century [texte imprimé] / Thomas Piketty (1971-....) ; Arthur Goldhammer, Traducteur . - Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, 2014 . - VIII-685 p. : fig., tabl. ; 25 cm. ISBN : 978-0-674-43000-6 Notes bibliogr. Index Langues : Anglais ( eng) Langues originales : Français ( fre)
Descripteurs : |
21e siècle , Accumulation du capital , Capital (Théorie) , Capitalisme , Productivité du capital , Redistribution des revenus , Revenu , Revenu (Théorie) , Richesse
|
Index. décimale : |
61 Économie générale |
Résumé : |
This book 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. It 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... [D'après le résumé de l'éditeur] |
En ligne : |
http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674430006 |
Permalink : |
https://genes.bibli.fr/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=109882 |
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