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100 Piketty, Thomas
$q Thomas Piketty
245 Capital in the twenty - first century
$b Incluye portada
260 Cambridge - Massachusetts : Seuil; 2014.
$a Cambridge - Massachusetts
$b Seuil
$c 2014
300 685 p. (ilustrado); 24 cm.
$a 685 p.
$b (ilustrado)
$c 24 cm
490 Colección Principal
500 Notas: 579-655 pp.; índice: 671-685 pp.
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520 What are the grand dynamics that drive the accumulation and distribution of capital? Questions about the long-term evolution of inequality, the concentration of wealth, and the prospects for economic growth lie at the heart of political economy. But satisfactory answers have been hard to find for lack of adequate data and clear guiding theories. In 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.
521 Cualquier público
534 CAPITAL IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY
546 Inglés
650 ECONOMIA POLITICA; CAPITAL; ECONOMIA
850 Biblioteca y Archivo Histórico - ALP