Capital in the Twenty-First Century

‘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