The Piketty phenomenon : New Zealand perspectives.

Format:

Book

Series:

BWB Texts

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Capital--New Zealand.

Capital.

Income distribution--New Zealand.

Income distribution.

Wealth--New Zealand.

Wealth.

Labor economics--New Zealand.

Labor economics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (105 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Wellington, New Zealand : Bridget Williams Books Limited, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

A diverse range of economists and commentators address the relevance of Thomas Piketty's 'Capital in the Twenty-First Century' for New Zealand.

Contents:

Contents; Introduction; About the Authors; Has Capital in the Twenty-First Century Changed Anything?; Income and wealth distribution; Piketty's approach; The Matthew principle; Policy implications; Piketty's Book is the Real Article; Why the Fuss?; How Economists Might View the Piketty Thesis; The Promise of a New Politics and a New Economics; A new politics; A new economics; Pickings from Piketty; What Piketty Means for Us; Unplugging the Machine; Gender: the missing discussion; The orthodoxy of wide earnings differentials; How radical is Piketty?; Unplugging the system

Illuminating Inequality Why We Need to Shift to Capital Taxes; What is the Piketty Model, and Does it Fit New Zealand?; The relationship between labour and capital; Drivers of the policy conclusions; Relevance to New Zealand?; Bringing Wealth into the Spotlight; Wealth in New Zealand; Recalibrating New Zealand; New Zealand Superannuation; Working for Families; Taxation of wealth; The Future of Inequality; 1. The book challenges dominant beliefs about elites and inequality; 2. Inequality became a heated topic after 2008; 3. The book clarifies and legitimises middle-class anxieties post-2008

4. The book remains reassuringly conventionalThe future of inequality; Capital Connections for Education; Endnotes; About BWB Texts

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed October 28, 2014).

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

1-927277-74-4

OCLC:

893732475