Pocket Piketty

Jesper Roine is an expert on wealth and income inequality, as well as one of the researchers who has contributed to the World Top Incomes Database upon which Piketty's research is based. He is an associate professor of Economics at SITE at the Stockholm School of Economics and has been published, extensively, on the topic of income and wealth inequality. Together with his colleague Daniel Waldenström at Uppsala University, he is responsible for the Swedish data on long-run income and wealth inequality used in Thomas Piketty's Capital in the Twenty-First Century.

An ideal companion to Piketty. For students and those in need of easier access to Piketty's work, Roine lays out the story in clear terms while providing very useful historical and economic background.

• PrefacePart I: The Underlying ResearchWhy all the Fuss?Why this Book?The Underlying ResearchThe Distribution of Income Over the Twentieth CenturyTop Income Shares Over the Twentieth CenturyFour Key InsightsWhy Does This Matter?Technology, Education, and the Possibility of a New Kuznets Curve after 1980?Part II: Summary of Capital in the Twenty-First CenturyStructure of the BookIntroduction1. Income and Capital2. The Dynamics of the Capital/Income Ratio3. The Structure of Inequality4. Regulating Capital in the Twenty-First CenturyConclusionPart III: Is Thomas Piketty right?