Capital in the twenty-first century

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ISBN: 9780674430006 (alk. paper)
Physical Description: print
viii, 685 p. ; 25 cm
Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2014.

General Note:	Translation of the author's Le capital au XXIe siècle.
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references (p. 579-655) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	Income and output -- Growth : illusions and realities -- The metamorphoses of capital -- From old Europe to the new world -- The capital/income ratio over the long run -- The capital-labor split in the twenty-first century -- Inequality and concentration : preliminary bearings -- Two worlds -- Inequality of labor income -- Inequality of capital ownership -- Merit and inheritance in the long run -- Global inequality of wealth in the twenty-first century -- A social state for the twenty-first century -- Rethinking the progressive income tax -- A global tax on capital -- The question of the public debt.