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Capital in the twenty-first century / Thomas Piketty ; translated by Arthur Goldhammer.

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ISBN: 9780674430006 (hardcover) :
Physical Description: viii, 685 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Publisher: Cambridge Massachusetts : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2014.

General Note:	Translation of the author's Le capital au XXIe siècle.
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	Income and Capital. Income and output ; Growth: illusions and realities. -- The Dynamics of the Capital/Income Ratio. The metamorphoses of capital ; From old Europe to the new world ; The capital/income ratio over the long run ; The capital-labor split in the twenty-first century. -- The Structure of Inequality. Inequality and concentration: preliminary bearings ; Two worlds ; Inequality of labor income ; Inequality of capital ownership ; Merit and inheritance in the long run ; Global inequality of wealth in the twenty-first century. -- Regulating Capital in the Twenty-First Century. A social state for the twenty-first century ; Rethinking the progressive income tax ; A global tax on capital ; The question of the public debt.