The Contradictions of Capital in the Twenty-First Century: The Piketty Opportunity

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Edited by Pat Hudson, Cardiff University, Keith Tribe

Publisher:: Agenda Publishing
Online publication date:: August 2023
Print publication year:: 2016
Online ISBN:: 9781911116127
DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781911116127

Subjects:: Politics: General Interest, Politics and International Relations

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This volume of essays builds upon renewed interest in the long-run global development of wealth and inequality stimulated by the publication of Thomas Piketty's Capital in the Twenty-First Century. It brings together an international team of leading economic historians and economists to provide an overview of global developments in the theory and reality of inequality and its salience in the modern world order.

The contributors take stock of the key concepts involved in contemporary debates - capital, wealth and income distribution, economic development, private and collective assets, financialization, global liberalisation - and evaluate the evidence for both common and contrasting historical trends in national statistical data sources. To the developed economies upon which Piketty drew are added contributions covering Latin America, Africa, India and Japan, providing a global perspective upon a global phenomenon.

The book seeks to provide readers with a deeper awareness and understanding of the significance of inequality in economic development, the varying pace and nature of economic change around the world, and the manner in which this process of change affects the distribution of incomes and wealth in diverse economies. The collection marks an important step in the process of developing Piketty's analytical framework and empirical material, overcoming some of their limitations and helping to cement a lasting place for inequality in the future agenda of economics and economic history.

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The Piketty Opportunity

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Frontmatter
pp i-iv

Contents
pp v-vi

Acknowledgements
pp vii-viii

Contributors
pp ix-xii

1 - Introduction
pp 1-10

Part I - Concepts and Models
pp 11-12

2 - Capital and Wealth
pp 13-28

3 - Inequality
pp 29-52

4 - Models, Money and Housing
pp 53-64

Part II - Piketty in Western National Contexts
pp 65-66

5 - French Idiosyncracies
pp 67-86

6 - Fact or Fiction? Complexities of Economic Inequality in Twentieth-Century Germany
pp 87-108

7 - Collective Wealth Formation: Conflict and Compromise in Sweden, 1950–2000
pp 109-130

8 - A Confusion of Capital in the United States
pp 131-166

9 - Distributional Politics: the Search for Equality in Britain Since the First World War
pp 167-192

Part III - Piketty: Global Commentaries
pp 193-194

10 - Looking at Piketty from the Periphery
pp 195-206

11 - The Differences of Inequality in Africa
pp 207-222

12 - Income Distribution in Pre-War Japan
pp 223-236

13 - Piketty and India
pp 237-246

Part IV - Prospect
pp 247-248

14 - Goals and Measures of Development: the Piketty Opportunity
pp 249-282

15 - Wealth and Income Distribution: New Theories Needed for a New Era
pp 283-288

Index
pp 289-300

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