Awards
- Nominated for FAF Translation Prize 2015
- Nominated for Robert Jervis and Paul Schroeder Best Book Award 2015
- Nominated for Sidney Hillman Prize for Book Journalism 2015
- Winner of Arthur Ross Book Award 2015
- Winner of PROSE Awards 2015
Overview
A New York Times #1 Bestseller An Amazon #1 Bestseller A Wall Street Journal #1 Bestseller A USA Today Bestseller A Sunday Times Bestseller Winner of the Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award Winner of the British Academy Medal Finalist, National Book Critics Circle Award ""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."" -Paul Krugman, New York Times ""The book aims to revolutionize the way people think about the economic history of the past two centuries. It may well manage the feat."" -The Economist ""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."" -Steven Pearlstein, Washington Post ""Piketty has written an extraordinarily important book In its scale and sweep it brings us back to the founders of political economy."" -Martin Wolf, Financial Times ""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."" -John Cassidy, New Yorker ""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."" -Timothy Shenk, The Nation
Full Product Details
Author: Thomas Piketty ,
Arthur Goldhammer
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Imprint: The Belknap Press
Dimensions:
Width: 14.00cm
, Height: 4.20cm
, Length: 21.60cm
Weight: 0.930kg
ISBN: 9780674979857
ISBN 10: 0674979850
Pages: 816
Publication Date: 14 August 2017
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Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
Thomas Piketty's Capital in the 21st Century is arguably the most important popular economics book in recent memory. It will take its place among other classics in the field that have survived changing theoretical and political fashions, such as its namesake by Karl Marx (Das Kapital, 1867) or other ambitiously titled books such as John Maynard Keynes's The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money (1936). Anyone who wants to engage in an informed discussion about the economic landscape will have to read Piketty.--Kate Bahn Women's Review of Books (01/01/2015) Thomas Piketty's Capital in the Twenty-First Century delivered a well placed kick up the backside to complacent mainstream economics.--Paul Mason The Observer (11/30/2014)
Author Information
Thomas Piketty is Professor of Economics and Economic History at L’École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) and at the Paris School of Economics and Codirector of the World Inequality Lab.
