Capital in the Twenty-First Century

A New York Times #1 Bestseller n An Amazon #1 Bestseller n A Wall Street Journal #1 Bestseller n A USA Today Bestseller n A Sunday Times Bestseller n Winner of the Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award n Winner of the British Academy Medal n Finalist, National Book Critics Circle Award n n n 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. n --Paul Krugman, New York Times n n The book aims to revolutionize the way people think about the economic history of the past two centuries. It may well manage the feat. n --The Economist n n 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. n --Steven Pearlstein, Washington Post n n Piketty has written an extraordinarily important book...In its scale and sweep it brings us back to the founders of political economy. n --Martin Wolf, Financial Times n n 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. n --John Cassidy, New Yorker n n 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. n --Timothy Shenk, The Nation n