Capital in the Twenty-First Century by Thomas Piketty : Summary, Key Ideas and Facts

By I.K. Mullins

Summary of Thomas Piketty's book. Thomas Piketty is well known as a researcher of income concentration. He uses fiscal sources in order to document the changes in the share of the top income groups in France and other countries. The importance of the research conducted by Piketty and his colleagues has also been supported by the strengthened interest in inequality and by the recognition of the fact that in the United States the median incomes have been stagnant for almost 40 years, whereas the top 1 percent of the population, or even more narrowly the top 0.1 percent, have drastically increased their share in total income. Piketty's book explains issues of income concentration more openly than ever. Moreover, in his book, Piketty provides an analysis of capitalism and a general theory of capitalism. In his book, Piketty has provided a new and astonishingly rich framework that does not treat the recent increase in inequality as an isolated phenomenon, but identifies the rising inequality as essential part of the nature of modern capitalism. CHECK OUT MORE BOOKS PUBLISHED BY BRIEF, CONCISE AND TO THE POINT PUBLISHING: THINK LIKE A FREAK: THE AUTHORS OF FREAKONOMICS OFFER TO RETRAIN YOUR BRAIN BY STEVEN D. LEVITT AND STEPHEN J. DUBNER - SUMMARY, KEY IDEAS AND FACTS ONE NATION: WHAT WE CAN ALL DO TO SAVE AMERICA'S FUTURE BY BEN CARSON, CANDY CARSON - SUMMARY, KEY IDEAS AND FACTS

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1500362735
• ISBN13: 9781500362737
• Release Date: June 2014
• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 112 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.5" x 8.5"