The best-selling, award-winning author of Capital takes on the financial crisis.
Thomas Piketty is Professor of Economics at the Paris School of Economics and Centennial Professor at the LSE. His book Capital in the Twenty-First Century, which argued that when the rate of return on capital exceeds the rate of economic growth, the resulting unequal distribution of wealth causes instability, has global sales so far of more than 2m copies.
Piketty fans will be fascinated . . . He explains economic concepts
to the lay reader with the kind of clarity that comes from a deep
understanding of the topic
*Independent on Sunday*
Amazing, inspiring, forward-thinking, and pragmatic. There is a
pattern forming -- Marx, Keynes, Piketty. As our world changes the
surest explanations and most practical solutions change in turn
*Professor Danny Dorling, University of Oxford*
The questions explored in these brilliant essays cut to the heart
of our failing economic and democratic systems. If you have been
influenced by Piketty's landmark work on inequality, make sure to
read this next.
*Naomi Klein, author of 'This Changes Everything' and 'The Shock
Doctrine'*
Coming on the heels of his masterwork, Capital in the 21st Century,
one might expect this to be the lesser contribution. In fact,
Piketty unleashed on real-time economics is a revelation: he is
lucid and persuasive - all the more so for being proved right about
most of the events he is responding to, even though the full facts
only came out later ... For an economist, Piketty draws on a vast
and unusual store of honesty and emotional intelligence
*Guardian*
Well-written and accessible. He ranges widely, to Brazil, Hong
Kong, South Africa and Japan. His take, as you would expect, is
solidly left-wing but he does not bludgeon. Is this a collection
worth buying? For those who did not get enough of him in Capital...
yes
*Sunday Times*
Piketty has transformed our economic discourse. We'll never talk
about wealth and inequality the same way we used to
*New York Review of Books*
The perfect accoutrement for a Bernie Sanders rally. It's easier to
carry through a crowd than the economist's 685-page best-seller of
two years ago, Capital in the Twenty-First Century
*Bloomberg*
Thomas Piketty depresses as much as inspires ... Beyond the
pleasure of hearing his thoughts, there is a fascination in
watching his instant response to events
*Observer*
Piketty is back ... as with Capital, Piketty remains quietly
optimistic'
*Evening Standard*
How one economist tried to make sense of a rapidly changing world
.... accessible, direct, universally applicable
*New Statesman*
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