After Piketty: The Agenda for Economics and Inequality
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| Rating | : | 4.28 (856 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B072DTM87J |
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| Number of Pages | : | 567 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-03-03 |
| Language | : | English |
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Are Thomas Piketty’s analyses of inequality on target? Where should researchers go from here in exploring the ideas he pushed to the forefront of global conversation? In After Piketty, a cast of economists and other social scientists tackle these questions in dialogue with Piketty, in what is sure to be a much-debated book in its own right.
Bradford DeLong is Professor of Economics at the University of California, Berkeley.Marshall Steinbaum is Fellow at the Roosevelt Institute, New York. Heather Boushey is Executive Director and Chief Economist at the Washington Center for Equitable Growth.J.
First! James B. Delong As one of the co-editors of this book, I know it very well. I am greatly pleased with how this project came out—we have very serious people, as Bob Solow would put it, writing very serious takes on what Thomas Piketty has accomplished, where he has gone wrong, and what gaps remain to be investigated by others. Social scientists thinking of citing on, working along lines related to, or drawing on Piketty should certainly read this book. People who have read Capital in the Twenty-First Century who are curious about how serious people are reacting to and assessing the b. A M said The book may be relevant to professional researchers but not to the general public. The book includes many articles that refer to Piketty book. Most of the articles support Piketty's theses and in the final chapter Piketty presents his answers. Unfortunately, none of the article deals with Piketty somewhat controversial ideas regarding capital taxes. Contrary to Piketty book, which is easy to understand by people having just broad background in economy, the current seems to be relevant to professional researchers but not to the general public.
As Piketty says in his gracious response, included at the end of this 660-page volume, the many authors bring a welcome breadth of expertise…Piketty’s commentators raise more questions than they answer, but they are important questions about a significant social challenge. This extraordinary gathering of two dozen authorsworking across disciplinary boundariesinterrogates Piketty’s core claims about the causes, correlates, characteristics, and consequences of high and rising levels of income and wealth inequality in the West. It benefits from having 21 essays on different inequality-related topics. (Aaron Reeves Nature 2017-03-16)Thomas Piketty’s Capital in the Twenty-First Century forcibly entered the public imagination in 2014, but the book’s impact on academic thinking and research is only just starting to be felt. The book serves as a fa