Capital in the twenty-first century - Piketty, Thomas, 1971-; Goldhammer, Arthur (Cambridge Massachusetts : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2014)
Income and output -- Growth : illusions and realities -- The metamorphoses of capital -- From old Europe to the new world -- The long-run capital/income ratio -- Capital's share vs. labor's share in the twenty-first century -- Inequality and concentration : an initial orientation -- The two worlds -- Inequality in the income from labor -- Inequality in the ownership of capital -- Merit and inheritance in the long run -- Global inequality of wealth 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.
Translation of the author's Le capital au XXIe si{u1963}le.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 579-655) and index.
Keywords: Capital; Income distribution; Wealth; Labor economics