Book · 2013 · Nonfiction

Capital

Name: Capital
Author: Thomas Piketty

Harvard University Press · 816 pages

★ 6.7 editorial score

Piketty mined two centuries of tax records for the engine of inequality: capital grows faster than the economy, so fortunes pull away from wages. It made inequality the West's central political question.

Genre

Economics Economic history

Subject

Economic inequality

Time

2013

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