Capitalism, Inequality and Globalization: Thomas Piketty’s Capital in the Twenty-first Century

I. The Piketty Argument Thomas Piketty’s book Capital in the Twenty-first Century embodies an immense amount of empirical research into the distribution of wealth and income across the population for a number of advanced capitalist countries going back for over two centuries.  In particular Piketty has made extensive use of tax data for the first … Continue reading Capitalism, Inequality and Globalization: Thomas Piketty’s Capital in the Twenty-first Century