After Piketty : The Agenda for Economics and Inequality / Heather Boushey, J. Bradford DeLong, Marshall Steinbaum.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Boushey, Heather, editor.

DeLong, J. Bradford, editor.

Steinbaum, Marshall, editor.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource : 8 halftones, 2 line illustrations, 41 graphs, 7 tables

Edition:

Pilot project. eBook available to selected US libraries only

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2018]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Thomas Piketty’s Capital in the Twenty-First Century is the most widely discussed work of economics in recent history, selling millions of copies in dozens of languages. But are its analyses of inequality and economic growth on target? Where should researchers go from here in exploring the ideas Piketty pushed to the forefront of global conversation? 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. After Piketty opens with a discussion by Arthur Goldhammer, the book’s translator, of the reasons for Capital’s phenomenal success, followed by the published reviews of Nobel laureates Paul Krugman and Robert Solow. The rest of the book is devoted to newly commissioned essays that interrogate Piketty’s arguments. Suresh Naidu and other contributors ask whether Piketty said enough about power, slavery, and the complex nature of capital. Laura Tyson and Michael Spence consider the impact of technology on inequality. Heather Boushey, Branko Milanovic, and others consider topics ranging from gender to trends in the global South. Emmanuel Saez lays out an agenda for future research on inequality, while a variety of essayists examine the book’s implications for the social sciences more broadly. Piketty replies to these questions in a substantial concluding chapter. An indispensable interdisciplinary work, After Piketty does not shy away from the seemingly intractable problems that made Capital in the Twenty-First Century so compelling for so many.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Introduction. Capital in the Twenty-First Century, Three Years Later / Delong, J. Bradford / Boushey, Heather / Steinbaum, Marshall

I. Reception

1. The Piketty Phenomenon / Goldhammer, Arthur

2. Thomas Piketty Is Right / Solow, Robert M.

3. Why We’re in a New Gilded Age / Krugman, Paul

II. Conceptions of Capital

4. What’s Wrong with Capital in the Twenty-First Century’s Model? / Raval, Devesh

5. A Political Economy Take on W / Y / Naidu, Suresh

6. The Ubiquitous Nature of Slave Capital / Berry, Daina Ramey

7. Human Capital and Wealth before and after Capital in the Twenty-First Century / Nielsen, Eric R.

8. Exploring the Effects of Technology on Income and Wealth Inequality / Tyson, Laura / Spence, Michael

9. Income Inequality, Wage Determination, and the Fissured Workplace / Weil, David

III. Dimensions of Inequality

10. Increasing Capital Income Share and Its Effect on Personal Income Inequality / Milanovic, Branko

11. Global Inequality / Lakner, Christoph

12. The Geographies of Capital in the Twenty- First Century: Inequality, Political Economy, and Space / Jones, Gareth A.

13. The Research Agenda after Capital in the Twenty-First Century / Saez, Emmanuel

14. Macro Models of Wealth Inequality / De Nardi, Mariacristina / Fella, Giulio / Yang, Fang

15. A Feminist Interpretation of Patrimonial Capitalism / Boushey, Heather

16. What Does Rising Inequality Mean for the Macroeconomy? / Zandi, Mark

17. Rising Inequality and Economic Stability / Morelli, Salvatore

IV. The Political Economy of Capital and Capitalism

18. Inequality and the Rise of Social Democracy: An Ideological History / Steinbaum, Marshall I.

19. The Legal Constitution of Capitalism / Grewal, David Singh

20. The Historical Origins of Global Inequality / Derenoncourt, Ellora

21. Everywhere and Nowhere: Politics in Capital in the Twenty-First Century / Jacobs, Elisabeth

V. Piketty Responds

22. Toward a Reconciliation between Economics and the Social Sciences / Piketty, Thomas

Notes

Acknowledgments

Index

Notes:

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ISBN:

0-674-97819-6

OCLC:

1054870454