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Storpocket, Svenska, 2017
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Den franske nationalekonomen Thomas Pikettys Kapitalet i tjugoförsta århundradet är en av de internationellt mest uppmärksammade och hyllade politisk-ekonomiska böckerna som utkommit de senaste decennierna och har jämförts med Karl Marx och John Maynard Keynes mest kända verk.
Tillväxten är det stigande tidvatten som lyfter alla båtar.
Så kan den teori formuleras som väglett västvärldens ekonomer och politiker i många år. Ekonomiska klyftor har ansetts vara av mindre intresse, eftersom man varit så övertygad om att marknaden i slutändan kommer att ställa allt till rätta.
På senare tid har emellertid en rad forskare framträtt som ifrågasätter detta synsätt. En av dem är Thomas Piketty. I sin bok Kapitalet i tjugoförsta århundradet visar han, med statistik från tjugo länder och fyra århundraden, hur en allt större ojämlikhet vad gäller förmögenhet och inkomst har vuxit fram tvärtemot förutsägelserna om att välståndet skulle komma alla till del. Efter några lyckliga decennier i mitten 1900-talet då ojämlikheten minskade är den idag för flera länder tillbaka på nivåer som inte setts sedan 1930-talet eller rentav 1800-talet.
Starka ekonomiska krafter verkar dessutom för att ojämlikheten kommer att fortsätta att öka, något som i förlängningen kan innebära ett hot mot demokratin och de värderingar om social rättvisa den är grundad på. Men det finns också möjliga motkrafter, där en politisk inriktning mot att återupprätta någon form av demokratisk kontroll över kapitalismen, kan spela en viktig roll.
Kapitalet i tjugoförsta århundradet är ett ovärderligt bidrag för att förstå de mäktiga ekonomiska mekanismer som styr våra moderna samhällen. Den är också ett tungt argument för varför jämlikhetsfrågan måste återfå sin centrala plats i varje diskussion om hur framtidens sociala liv ska se ut.
OM FÖRFATTAREN
Thomas Piketty, född 1971, är en fransk nationalekonom specialiserad på ojämlikhet i fördelning av inkomst och förmögenhet. Han är professor vid École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris School of Economics och London School of Economics.
OM BOKEN
"Thomas Piketty är inte något känt namn, men det kommer kanske att förändras genom publiceringen av hans storartade och förkrossande betraktelse om ojämlikhet, Kapitalet i tjugoförsta århundradet. Piketty har skrivit en i sanning enastående bok. Det är ett verk som förenar stor historisk överblick - när hörde du senaste en ekonom åberopa Jane Austen och Balzac? - med omsorgsfull analys av data. Och fastän Piketty gör sig lustig över den nationalekonomiska professionen för dess barnsliga passion för matematik, så underbygger han sin egen diskussion med en ekonomisk modell som är något av ett konststycke, ett angreppssätt som integrerar analys av ekonomisk tillväxt med fördelningen av inkomst och förmögenhet. Det här är en bok som kommer att förändra både hur vi ser på samhället och den nationalekonomiska praktiken." Paul Krugman i New York Review of Books
"Kapitalet i tjugoförsta århundradet är ett standardverk för en ny tid. En klassiker. Det ekonomiska paradigmskiftet mellan två hårda pärmar. En bok som kommer att influera ekonomer och politiker för lång tid framöver. Ni får ursäkta mitt pretentiösa tonläge, men det här är ett sådan verk. Alla som är intresserade av de stora krafter som formar samhället kommer behöva relatera till Thomas Piketty de närmaste åren. De kommer rentav att behöva läsa Thomas Piketty. Deras smala lycka är att den 700-sidiga boken inte bara är läsbar, utan relativt uppslukande. Genom att upptäcka och sammanställa tidigare aldrig skådad data har Thomas Piketty upptäckt en ny ekonomisk planet. Problemet är bara att det är vår egen." Katrine Kielos (Marçal) i Dagens Nyheter
Inbunden, Svenska, 2022
273 kr
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Ingen har som Thomas Piketty blottlagt hur våra politiska och ekonomiska system banat väg för orättvisor. I sin nya bok visar han med stor skärpa hur det vid sidan om kriser, våld och tyranni hela tiden förts kamper för rättvisare inkomstfördelning, starkare rättigheter och minskad ojämlikhet.
Förändring går att åstadkomma. Men för att röra oss framåt måste vi ständigt ompröva våra välfärdssystem och stå emot historielöshet och kulturell separatism. Och viktigast av allt: kampen för jämlikhet stannar av om vi inte själva för den vidare.
I En kort historik om jämlikhet sammanfattar världens ledande nationalekonom sina tidigare arbeten. Det är den perfekta introduktionen till hans tankar, idéer och drömmar om en bättre framtid.
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Thomas Piketty (f. 1971) är en av vår tids mest uppskattade och lästa nationalekonomer. Hans tidigare böcker om ekonomisk ojämlikhet, Kapitalet i tjugoförsta århundradet (2015) och Kapitalet och ideologin (2020), har redan uppnått klassikerstatus. Piketty är professor vid École d'économie de Paris och École des hautes études en sciences sociales.
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»Med sin typiska klarhet, imponerande bredd och provocerande progressivitet är Pikettys nya bok en livsviktig introduktion till hans idéer.«Publishers Weekly
»Piketty presenterar en plan som är både smart, genomtänkt och grundad i en beundransvärd politisk övertygelse.« Washington Post
»Alla som ännu inte tagit sig igenom Pikettys tidigare böcker borde läsa den här.« Financial Times
Häftad, Svenska, 2024
120 kr
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Socialdemokratin går mot ett avgörande vägskäl när den nyliberala eran närmar sig sitt slut. Att ensam fortsätta försvara åtstramningspolitiken efter att högern övergett den i spåren av kostnadskrisen ter sig osannolikt. Men vad är alternativet? I den här boken bygger tio socialdemokrater ett fundament för hur en välståndsskapande ekonomisk politik skulle kunna se ut, där människan sätts i centrum. Genom attkombinera ekonomisk analys med praktiska policyförslag visar författarna hur vi kan skapa ett samhälle där alla har möjlighet att utvecklas och bidra. Nationens välstånd visar att framtiden är vår att skapa. En politik där människan sätts i centrum är möjlig. Samhället är trots allt människans verk.
Inbunden, Svenska, 2020
194 kr
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"Piketty ger oss hopp genom att envist visa att mer jämlika samhällen alltid är möjliga. Hans två storverk utgör faktiskt redan en reformismens bibel." GÖRAN GREIDER, debattör och författare
Ett nytt perspektiv på världshistorien, en svidande kritik av samtidens politik och ett djärvt förslag till ett mer rättvist ekonomiskt system. Thomas Pikettys bästsäjande Kapitalet i tjugoförsta århundradet revolutionerade den internationella debatten om ojämlikhet. Här utmanar han vårt sätt att se på ideologi, globalisering och samhällsförändring.
Piketty beskriver de idéer som har rättfärdigat ojämlikheten under det senaste årtusendet, kartlägger var dagens ekonomiska och politiska tänkande går vilse och blickar framåt mot en ny politisk världsordning. Därtill är Sverige och den svenska modellen ett återkommande exempel i bokens många analyser och iakttagelser.
KAPITALET OCH IDEOLOGIN är en omistlig bok för den som på allvar vill förstå samtidens strukturella ojämlikheter -- och hur man kan göra upp med dem en gång för alla.
"Kapitalet och ideologin är en slösande rik bok, på 1 200 sidor, av världshistoria och samtidsanalys, skriven för vanligt folk av en av vår tids största samhällsforskare, ett storverk." AFTONBLADET
"Den viktigaste boken att läsa för alla som vill se ett rött 2020-tal." DANIEL SUHONEN, debattör och författare
"Den tog veckor att läsa, men gjorde mig stillsamt lycklig." PER WIRTÉN, Expressen
Inbunden, Svenska, 2025
200 kr
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Den världsberömda franska ekonomen Thomas Piketty ger här en lättillgänglig sammanfattning av sin omfattande forskning om hur ojämlikheter uppstår och befästs. Genom att studera faktorer som utbildning, arv, beskattning av förmögenhet, ojämlikhet mellan könen och klimathotets ekonomi utmanar han varje föreställning om att ojämlikhet skulle vara en naturlig och oundviklig företeelse och visar att vägen mot jämlikhet alltid går genom politiskt och socialt arbete.
Thomas Piketty, född 1971, är en fransk nationalekonom och författare, verksam vid både franska och internationella universitet. Hans banbrytande studier har haft avgörande betydelse för förståelsen av såväl svårtolkade historiska processer som samtida tillkortakommanden.
"Det är en perfekt och pedagogisk sammanfattning av hans banbrytande historiska forskning. Även ett klokt försvarstal för välfärdsstaten. Den förhatliga tanken att ökad jämlikhet och utbildning också driver fram tekniska, ekonomiska och kulturella framsteg." Jan Eklund, DN.
"Det är en lågoddsare att Piketty inom de närmaste tio åren kommer att tilldelas Ekonomipriset till Alfred Nobels minne. För den som inte har läst en sida Piketty är det här är en nätt och enkel introduktion, som gör en insatt i hans tankar och teorier innan prisutdelningen äger rum." Lovisa Broström, GP.
Häftad, Engelska, 2017
261 kr
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A New York Times #1 BestsellerA Wall Street Journal #1 BestsellerA USA Today BestsellerA Sunday Times BestsellerA Guardian Best Book of the 21st CenturyWinner of the Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year AwardWinner of the British Academy MedalFinalist, 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
Inbunden, Engelska, 2025
119 kr
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In this compelling dialogue, two of the world’s most influential thinkers reflect on the value of equality and debate what citizens and governments should do to narrow the gaps that separate us. Ranging across economics, philosophy, history, and current affairs, Thomas Piketty and Michael Sandel consider how far we have come in achieving greater equality. At the same time, they confront head-on the extreme divides that remain in wealth, income, power, and status nationally and globally. What can be done at a time of deep political instability and environmental crisis? Piketty and Sandel agree on much: more inclusive investment in health and education, higher progressive taxation, curbing the political power of the rich and the overreach of markets. But how far and how fast can we push? Should we prioritize material or social change? What are the prospects for any change at all with nationalist forces resurgent? How should the left relate to values like patriotism and local solidarity where they collide with the challenges of mass migration and global climate change? To see Piketty and Sandel grapple with these and other problems is to glimpse new possibilities for change and justice but also the stubborn truth that progress towards greater equality never comes quickly or without deep social conflict and political struggle.
Inbunden, Engelska, 2024
163 kr
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A Guardian book to look out for in 2024An insightful exploration of the nature of inequality by the internationally bestselling author of Capital in the Twenty-First Century.In his newest work, Thomas Piketty explores how social inequality manifests itself very differently depending on the society and epoch in which it arises. History and culture play a central role, inequality being strongly linked to various socio-economic, political, civilisational, and religious developments. So it is culture in the broadest sense that makes it possible to explain the diversity, extent, and structure of the social inequality that we observe every day.Piketty briefly and concisely presents a lively synthesis of his work, taking up such diverse topics as education, inheritance, taxes, and the climate crisis, and provides exciting food for thought for a highly topical debate: Does natural inequality exist?
Pocket, Svenska, 2016
89 kr
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Kan Europa ta sig ur skuldkrisen? Finns det en framtid för eurosamarbetet? Har den så kallade "trojkan" agerat på rätt sätt? Hur kan EU bromsa en skenande social och ekonomisk ojämlikhet? Det senaste decenniet har varit en omvälvande epok - inte minst sett ur ett europeiskt perspektiv. Den globala finanskrisen och framväxten av populistiska rörelser har inneburit hårda prövningar för ett redan ifrågasatt EU-samarbete. Världen har också krympt till följd av globaliseringen och ingen aktör kan ensam möta utmaningarna vi står inför. Samtidigt präglas vår tid av konflikter, protektionism och kortsiktighet, vilket bakbinder de institutioner till vilka vi sätter vårt hopp. Kan vi rädda Europa? spänner över många teman; utbildningssystemens behov av reformer, skatteparadis och rättvisa skatter, den globala finansmarknaden, USA:s roll i världen, konflikten i Mellanöstern, Kinas framväxt samt EU:s behov av ökad demokrati och samarbete. * Thomas Piketty är professor i nationalekonomi vid Paris School of Economics och författare till Kapitalet i det tjugoförsta århundradet. Kan vi rädda Europa? innehåller ett urval av texter skrivna åren 2005-2015. Thomas Piketty staller helt enkelt andra fragor och lyfter pa stenar som nastan aldrig vidrors i svensk offentlighet. De handlar om makt och om vad politiken kan astadkomma ... Sa kop ett exemplar och skicka efter egen lasning till valfritt statsrad i regeringen. Daniel Suhonen i Expressen Stundom briljanta smakprov pa ekonomisk folkbildning. Svenska Dagbladet Piketty stravar efter att rubba sjalva maktbalansen i den skona, hemska varld som vi lever i. Sven-Eric Liedman i Sydsvenskan Alla som är intresserade av de stora krafter som formar samhället kommer behöva relatera till Thomas Piketty. Dagens Nyheter Thomas Piketty har förvandlat vår ekonomiska diskurs; vi kommer aldrig mer att tala om förmögenheter och ojämlikhet som vi har gjort hittills. New York Times
Häftad, Engelska, 2024
174 kr
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Thomas Piketty’s powerful and bestselling Capital and Ideology is now available in this accessible and richly illustrated full-color graphic novel format.Praised by Piketty himself as a “magnificent adaptation” of his original book, this graphic novel adaptation is perfect for anyone looking to understand the wealth gap and why society is the way it is today.Claire Alet and Benjamin Adam make the original work’s ideas more accessible through the addition of a family saga. Jules, the main character, is born at the end of the 19th century. He is a person of private means, a privileged figure representative of a profoundly unequal society obsessed with property.He, his family circle, and his descendants will experience the evolution of wealth and society. Eight generations of his family serve as a connecting thread running through the book, all the way up to Léa, a young woman today, who discovers the family secret at the root of their inheritance.The book concludes with six compelling proposals for participatory socialism in the 21st century.Friendly and approachable illustrations by cartoonist and children’s book author Benjamin Adam are easy to understand without diluting the subject matter. The material is adapted expertly by Claire Alet, a former journalist at Alternatives Economiques.
Häftad, Engelska, 2014
373 kr
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This book is an in-depth discussion of rising inequalities in the western world. It explores the extent to which rising inequalities are the mechanical consequence of changes in economic fundamentals (such as changes in technological or demographic parameters), and to what extent they are the contingent consequences of country-specific and time-specific changes in institutions. Both the 'fundamentalist' view and the 'institutionalist' view have some relevance. For instance, the decline of traditional manufacturing employment since the 1970s has been associated in every developed country with a rise of labor-market inequality (the inequality of labor earnings within the working-age population has gone up in all countries), which lends support to the fundamentalist view. But, on the other hand, everybody agrees that institutional differences (minimum wage, collective bargaining, tax and transfer policy, etc.) between Continental European countries and Anglo-Saxon countries explain why disposable income inequality trajectories have been so different in those two groups of countries during the 1980s-90s, which lends support to the institutionalist view.The chapters in this volume show the strength of both views. Through empirical evidence and new theoretical insights the contributors argue that institutions always play a crucial role in shaping inequalities, and sometimes preventing them, but that inequalities across age, sex, and skills often recur. From Sweden to Spain and Portugal, from Italy to Japan and the USA, the volume explores the diversity of the interplay between market forces and institutions.
Häftad, Engelska, 2014
444 kr
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A rapidly growing area of economic research investigates the top of the income distribution using data from income tax records. This volume brings together studies of top incomes for twelve countries from around the world, including China, India, Japan, Argentina and Indonesia. Together with the first volume, published in 2007, the studies cover twenty two countries. They have a long time span, the earliest data relating to 1875 (for Norway), allowing recent developments to be placed in historical perspective. The volume describes in detail the source data and the methods employed. It will be an invaluable reference source for researchers in the field. Individual country chapters deal with the specific nature of the data for each of the countries, and describe the long-term evolution of top income shares.In the countries as a whole, dramatic changes have taken place at the top of the income distribution. Over the first part of the century, top income shares fell markedly. This largely took the form of a reduction in capital incomes. The different authors examine the impact of the First and Second World Wars, contrasting countries that were and were not engaged. They consider the impact of depressions and banking crises, and pay particular attention to the impact of progressive taxation. In the last 30 years, the shares of top incomes have increased markedly in the US and other Anglo-Saxon countries, reflecting the increased dispersion of earnings. The volume includes statistics on the much-discussed top pay and bonuses, providing a global perspective that discusses important differences between countries such as the lesser increase in Continental Europe. This book, together with volume 1, documents this interesting development and explores the underlying causes. The findings are brought together in a final summary chapter by Atkinson, Piketty and Saez.
Häftad, Engelska, 2014
457 kr
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Based on a pioneering research programme on the evolution of top incomes, this volume brings together studies from 10 OECD countries. This rapidly growing field of economic research investigates the top segment of the income distribution by using data from income tax records over the past century. As well as describing the source data and methods employed, the authors also discuss the dramatic changes that have occurred at the top of the income scale throughout the 20th century. This fascinating study is the first of its kind to provide a comprehensive historic overview of top income distribution over the last century. It looks at why top incomes shares fell markedly in the first half of the 20th century and why, more recently, there has been a striking difference in the top income distribution between continental Europe and English-speaking OECD countries, like the UK, USA, and Australia. Written by the top names in the field, this seminal work provides rich pickings for those with an interest in inequality, development, the economic impact of war, taxation, economic history, and executive compensation.
Inbunden, Engelska, 2002
1 947 kr
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This book is an in-depth discussion of rising inequalities in the western world. It explores the extent to which rising inequalities are the mechanical consequence of changes in economic fundamentals (such as changes in technological or demographic parameters), and to what extent they are the contingent consequences of country-specific and time-specific changes in institutions. Both the 'fundamentalist' view and the 'institutionalist' view have some relevance. For instance, the decline of traditional manufacturing employment since the 1970s has been associated in every developed country with a rise of labor-market inequality (the inequality of labor earnings within the working-age population has gone up in all countries), which lends support to the fundamentalist view. But, on the other hand, everybody agrees that institutional differences (minimum wage, collective bargaining, tax and transfer policy, etc.) between Continental European countries and Anglo-Saxon countries explain why disposable income inequality trajectories have been so different in those two groups of countries during the 1980s-90s, which lends support to the institutionalist view.The chapters in this volume show the strength of both views. Through empirical evidence and new theoretical insights the contributors argue that institutions always play a crucial role in shaping inequalities, and sometimes preventing them, but that inequalities across age, sex, and skills often recur. From Sweden to Spain and Portugal, from Italy to Japan and the USA, the volume explores the diversity of the interplay between market forces and institutions.
Inbunden, Engelska, 2007
1 607 kr
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Based on a pioneering research programme on the evolution of top incomes, this volume brings together studies from 10 OECD countries. This rapidly growing field of economic research investigates the top segment of the income distribution by using data from income tax records over the past century. As well as describing the source data and methods employed, the authors also discuss the dramatic changes that have occurred at the top of the income scale throughout the 20th century. This fascinating study is the first of its kind to provide a comprehensive historic overview of top income distribution over the last century. It looks at why top incomes shares fell markedly in the first half of the 20th century and why, more recently, there has been a striking difference in the top income distribution between continental Europe and English-speaking OECD countries, like the UK, USA, and Australia. Written by the top names in the field, this seminal work provides rich pickings for those with an interest in inequality, development, the economic impact of war, taxation, economic history, and executive compensation.
Inbunden, Engelska, 2010
1 406 kr
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A rapidly growing area of economic research investigates the top of the income distribution using data from income tax records. This volume brings together studies of top incomes for twelve countries from around the world, including China, India, Japan, Argentina and Indonesia. Together with the first volume, published in 2007, the studies cover twenty two countries. They have a long time span, the earliest data relating to 1875 (for Norway), allowing recent developments to be placed in historical perspective. The volume describes in detail the source data and the methods employed. It will be an invaluable reference source for researchers in the field. Individual country chapters deal with the specific nature of the data for each of the countries, and describe the long-term evolution of top income shares.In the countries as a whole, dramatic changes have taken place at the top of the income distribution. Over the first part of the century, top income shares fell markedly. This largely took the form of a reduction in capital incomes. The different authors examine the impact of the First and Second World Wars, contrasting countries that were and were not engaged. They consider the impact of depressions and banking crises, and pay particular attention to the impact of progressive taxation. In the last 30 years, the shares of top incomes have increased markedly in the US and other Anglo-Saxon countries, reflecting the increased dispersion of earnings. The volume includes statistics on the much-discussed top pay and bonuses, providing a global perspective that discusses important differences between countries such as the lesser increase in Continental Europe. This book, together with volume 1, documents this interesting development and explores the underlying causes. The findings are brought together in a final summary chapter by Atkinson, Piketty and Saez.
Häftad, Engelska, 2017
139 kr
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The return of the best-selling, award-winning economist extraordinaireWith the same powerful evidence, and range of reference, as his global bestseller Capital in the Twenty-First Century - and in columns of 700 words, rather than 700 pages - Chronicles sets out Thomas Piketty's analysis of the financial crisis, what has happened since and where we should go from here.Tackling a wider range of subjects than in Capital, from productivity in Britain to Barack Obama, it comprises the very best of his writing for Liberation from the past ten years. Now, translated into English for the first time, it will further cement Piketty's reputation as the world's leading thinker today.
Inbunden, Engelska, 2021
347 kr
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Häftad, Engelska, 2022
155 kr
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A chronicle of recent events that have shaken the world, from the author of Capital in the Twenty-First Century “What makes this manifesto noteworthy is that it comes from . . . an economist who gained his reputation as a researcher with vaguely left-of-center sensibilities but was far from a radical. Yet the times are such . . . that even honest moderates are driven to radical remedies.”—Robert Kuttner, New York Times As a correspondent for the French newspaper Le Monde, world-renowned economist Thomas Piketty has documented the rise and fall of Trump, the drama of Brexit, Emmanuel Macron’s ascendance to the French presidency, the unfolding of a global pandemic, and much else besides, always from the perspective of his fight for a more equitable world. This collection brings together those articles and is prefaced by an extended introductory essay, in which Piketty argues that the time has come to support an inclusive and expansive conception of socialism as a counterweight against the hypercapitalism that defines our current economic ideology. These essays offer a first draft of history from one of the world’s leading economists and public figures, detailing the struggle against inequalities and tax evasion, in favor of a federalist Europe and a globalization more respectful of work and the environment.
Inbunden, Engelska, 2025
266 kr
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An acclaimed economist’s observations on four years of events that have shaped the world In this new volume drawn from his columns for the French newspaper Le Monde, renowned economist Thomas Piketty takes measure of the world since 2021: leaders grappling with the aftershocks of a global pandemic; politics shifting rightward in Europe and America; and wars breaking out and escalating, from Russia’s invasion of Ukraine to the conflict in Israel and Gaza. Together with an extended introductory essay arguing that an ecological socialism remains the best hope for global equality, these articles present Piketty’s vivid first draft of history—on the rise of China, political upheaval, armed conflict, inequity within and between nations, discrimination, and beyond. Despite the gathering clouds, Piketty continues to find reasons for hope.
Häftad, Engelska, 2027
193 kr
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An acclaimed economist’s observations on four years of events that have shaped the world In this new volume drawn from his columns for the French newspaper Le Monde, renowned economist Thomas Piketty takes measure of the world since 2021: leaders grappling with the aftershocks of a global pandemic; politics shifting rightward in Europe and America; and wars breaking out and escalating, from Russia’s invasion of Ukraine to the conflict in Israel and Gaza. Together with an extended introductory essay arguing that an ecological socialism remains the best hope for global equality, these articles present Piketty’s vivid first draft of history—on the rise of China, political upheaval, armed conflict, inequity within and between nations, discrimination, and beyond. Despite the gathering clouds, Piketty continues to find reasons for hope.
Häftad, Engelska, 2022
226 kr
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Inbunden, Engelska, 2021
393 kr
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The empirical starting point for anyone who wants to understand political cleavages in the democratic world, based on a unique dataset covering fifty countries since World War II.Who votes for whom and why? Why has growing inequality in many parts of the world not led to renewed class-based conflicts, seeming instead to have come with the emergence of new divides over identity and integration? News analysts, scholars, and citizens interested in exploring those questions inevitably lack relevant data, in particular the kinds of data that establish historical and international context. Political Cleavages and Social Inequalities provides the missing empirical background, collecting and examining a treasure trove of information on the dynamics of polarization in modern democracies.The chapters draw on a unique set of surveys conducted between 1948 and 2020 in fifty countries on five continents, analyzing the links between voters’ political preferences and socioeconomic characteristics, such as income, education, wealth, occupation, religion, ethnicity, age, and gender. This analysis sheds new light on how political movements succeed in coalescing multiple interests and identities in contemporary democracies. It also helps us understand the conditions under which conflicts over inequality become politically salient, as well as the similarities and constraints of voters supporting ethnonationalist politicians like Narendra Modi, Jair Bolsonaro, Marine Le Pen, and Donald Trump.Bringing together cutting-edge data and historical analysis, editors Amory Gethin, Clara Martínez-Toledano, and Thomas Piketty offer a vital resource for understanding the voting patterns of the present and the likely sources of future political conflict.
Inbunden, Engelska, 2025
620 kr
A pioneering history of voting and inequality, drawing on an unprecedented data set covering more than two centuries of sociological findings.Who votes for whom and why? Julia Cagé and Thomas Piketty comb through more than two hundred years of data from some 36,000 French municipalities to show how inequality has shaped the formation of political coalitions, with stark consequences for economic and political development.Cagé and Piketty argue that today’s tripartite division of French political life—a competition among a bourgeois central bloc and distinct factions of the urban and rural working classes—has a precise, and revealing, historical analogue. To understand contemporary tensions, we can look to the end of the nineteenth century and the beginning of the twentieth, another period when runaway economic inequality produced such a three-way rivalry. Cagé and Piketty show that tripartition has always been unstable, whereas the binary political conflict enabled by relative equality and typical of most of the twentieth century facilitated social and economic progress. Comparing these configurations over time helps us envisage possible trajectories for the French political system in the coming decades.With its many changes in governmental structure since 1789, France is an ideal laboratory for studying the vicissitudes of modern political life in general, and electoral democracy in particular. Using France as a model, A History of Political Conflict offers a powerful framework for understanding the complex project of building and sustaining democratic majorities.
Inbunden, Engelska, 2022
235 kr
Skickas inom 5-8 vardagar
A New York Times Book Review Editors’ ChoiceA Public Books Best Book of the Year“An opportunity for readers to see Piketty bring his larger argument about the origins of inequality and his program for fighting it into high relief.”—Nicholas Lemann, New York TimesThe world’s leading economist of inequality presents a short but sweeping and surprisingly optimistic history of human progress toward equality despite crises, disasters, and backsliding. A perfect introduction to the ideas developed in his monumental earlier books.It’s easy to be pessimistic about inequality. We know it has increased dramatically in many parts of the world over the past two generations. No one has done more to reveal the problem than Thomas Piketty. Now, in this surprising and powerful new work, Piketty reminds us that the grand sweep of history gives us reasons to be optimistic. Over the centuries, he shows, we have been moving toward greater equality.Piketty guides us with elegance and concision through the great movements that have made the modern world for better and worse: the growth of capitalism, revolutions, imperialism, slavery, wars, and the building of the welfare state. It’s a history of violence and social struggle, punctuated by regression and disaster. But through it all, Piketty shows, human societies have moved fitfully toward a more just distribution of income and assets, a reduction of racial and gender inequalities, and greater access to health care, education, and the rights of citizenship. Our rough march forward is political and ideological, an endless fight against injustice. To keep moving, Piketty argues, we need to learn and commit to what works, to institutional, legal, social, fiscal, and educational systems that can make equality a lasting reality. At the same time, we need to resist historical amnesia and the temptations of cultural separatism and intellectual compartmentalization. At stake is the quality of life for billions of people. We know we can do better, Piketty concludes. The past shows us how. The future is up to us.
Häftad, Engelska, 2022
293 kr
Skickas inom 5-8 vardagar
Produced by a team of world-leading economists, this is the benchmark account of recent and historical trends in inequality.World Inequality Report 2022 is the most authoritative and comprehensive account available of global trends in inequality. Researched, compiled, and written by a team of world-leading economists, the report builds on the pioneering edition of 2018 to provide policy makers and scholars everywhere up-to-date information about an ever broader range of countries and about forms of inequality that researchers have previously ignored or found hard to trace.Over the past decade, inequality has taken center stage in public debate as the wealthiest people in most parts of the world have seen their share of the economy soar relative to that of others. The resulting political and social pressures have posed harsh new challenges for governments and created a pressing demand for reliable data. The World Inequality Lab, housed at the Paris School of Economics and the University of California, Berkeley, has answered this call by coordinating research into the latest trends in the accumulation and distribution of income and wealth on every continent. This new report not only extends the lab’s international reach but provides crucial new information about the history of inequality, gender inequality, environmental inequalities, and trends in international tax reform and redistribution.World Inequality Report 2022 will be a key document for anyone concerned about one of the most imperative and contentious subjects in contemporary politics and economics.
Häftad, Engelska, 2024
216 kr
Skickas inom 5-8 vardagar
A New York Times Book Review Editors’ ChoiceA Public Books Best Book of the Year“A profound and optimistic call to action and reflection. For Piketty, the arc of history is long, but it does bend toward equality. There is nothing automatic about it, however: as citizens, we must be ready to fight for it, and constantly (re)invent the myriad of institutions that will bring it about. This book is here to help.”—Esther Duflo“A sustained argument for why we should be optimistic about human progress…[Piketty] has laid out a plan that is smart, thoughtful, and motivated by admirable political convictions.”—Gary Gerstle, Washington Post“Thomas Piketty helped put inequality at the center of political debate. Now, he offers an ambitious program for addressing it…This is political economy on a grand scale, a starting point for debate about the future of progressive politics.”—Michael J. Sandel, author of The Tyranny of Merit“[Piketty] argues that we’re on a trajectory of greater, not less, equality and lays out his prescriptions for remedying our current corrosive wealth disparities.”—David Marchese, New York Times MagazineIt’s easy to be pessimistic these days. We know that inequality has increased dramatically over the past two generations. Its ravages are increasingly impossible to ignore. But the grand sweep of history gives us reasons for hope. In this short and surprisingly optimistic history of human progress, the world’s leading economist of inequality shows that over the centuries we have been moving, fitfully and inconsistently but inexorably, toward greater equality.Thomas Piketty guides us through the seismic movements that have made the modern world: the birth of capitalism, the age of revolution, imperialism, slavery, two world wars, and the building of the welfare state. He shows that through it all, societies have moved toward a more just distribution of income and assets, reducing racial and gender inequalities and offering greater access to health care, education, and the rights of citizenship. To keep moving, he argues, we need to commit to legal, social, fiscal, and educational systems that can make equality a lasting reality, while resisting the temptations of cultural separatism. At stake is the quality of life for billions of people. We know we can do better. But do we dare?
Inbunden, Engelska, 2014
437 kr
Skickas inom 10-15 vardagar
A New York Times #1 BestsellerA Wall Street Journal #1 BestsellerA USA Today BestsellerA Sunday Times BestsellerA Guardian Best Book of the 21st CenturyWinner of the Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year AwardWinner of the British Academy MedalFinalist, National Book Critics Circle AwardWhat are the grand dynamics that drive the accumulation and distribution of capital? Questions about the long-term evolution of inequality, the concentration of wealth, and the prospects for economic growth lie at the heart of political economy. But satisfactory answers have been hard to find for lack of adequate data and clear guiding theories. In Capital in the Twenty-First Century, Thomas Piketty analyzes a unique collection of data from twenty countries, ranging as far back as the eighteenth century, to uncover key economic and social patterns. His findings will transform debate and set the agenda for the next generation of thought about wealth and inequality.Piketty shows that modern economic growth and the diffusion of knowledge have allowed us to avoid inequalities on the apocalyptic scale predicted by Karl Marx. But we have not modified the deep structures of capital and inequality as much as we thought in the optimistic decades following World War II. The main driver of inequality—the tendency of returns on capital to exceed the rate of economic growth—today threatens to generate extreme inequalities that stir discontent and undermine democratic values. But economic trends are not acts of God. Political action has curbed dangerous inequalities in the past, Piketty says, and may do so again.A work of extraordinary ambition, originality, and rigor, Capital in the Twenty-First Century reorients our understanding of economic history and confronts us with sobering lessons for today.
Inbunden, Engelska, 2015
236 kr
Skickas inom 5-8 vardagar
Thomas Piketty—whose Capital in the Twenty-First Century pushed inequality to the forefront of public debate—wrote The Economics of Inequality as an introduction to the conceptual and factual background necessary for interpreting changes in economic inequality over time. This concise text has established itself as an indispensable guide for students and general readers in France, where it has been regularly updated and revised. Translated by Arthur Goldhammer, The Economics of Inequality now appears in English for the first time.Piketty begins by explaining how inequality evolves and how economists measure it. In subsequent chapters, he explores variances in income and ownership of capital and the variety of policies used to reduce these gaps. Along the way, with characteristic clarity and precision, he introduces key ideas about the relationship between labor and capital, the effects of different systems of taxation, the distinction between “historical” and “political” time, the impact of education and technological change, the nature of capital markets, the role of unions, and apparent tensions between the pursuit of efficiency and the pursuit of fairness.Succinct, accessible, and authoritative, this is the ideal place to start for those who want to understand the fundamental issues at the heart of one of the most pressing concerns in contemporary economics and politics.
Inbunden, Engelska, 2018
302 kr
Skickas inom 5-8 vardagar
A landmark in contemporary social science, this pioneering work by Thomas Piketty explains the facts and dynamics of income inequality in France in the twentieth century. On its publication in French in 2001, it helped launch the international program led by Piketty and others to explore the grand patterns and causes of global inequality—research that has since transformed public debate. Appearing here in English for the first time, this stunning achievement will take its place alongside Capital in the Twenty-First Century as a modern classic of economic analysis.Top Incomes in France in the Twentieth Century is essential in part because of Piketty’s unprecedented efforts to uncover, untangle, and present in clear form data about patterns in tax and inheritance in France dating back to 1900. But it is also an exceptional work of analysis, tracking and explaining with Piketty’s characteristically lucid prose the effects of political conflict, war, and social change on the economic pressures and public policies that determined the lives of millions. A work of unusual intellectual power and ambition, Top Incomes in France in the Twentieth Century is a vital resource for anyone concerned with the economic, political, and social history of France, and it is central to ongoing debates about social justice, inequality, taxation, and the evolution of capitalism around the world.