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# Capital in the Twenty-First Century

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    Good read, but arduous. Pick chapters that interest you.
  

*by S***Y on Reviewed in India on 3 May 2019*

I found this book quite fascinating. The author is able to weave through history of income inequality and juxtapose it with current data gathered from US, UK, France, China and India. Quite a good read.However, the first 100, pages may be a bain to start. Keep at it and you will find the journey rewarding in the end.Let me iterate this is not a casual reading book ... it is a serious study of the world's inequality and being quite voluminous requires significant ability to concentrate and maintain focus ...You also would need to have some understanding of basic economics to appreciate the work. Piketty, uses a lots of technical terms and rightly so perhaps, which refer to economics principles of demand and supply,  r & g (rate of growth of capital vs growth of economy) at al, and lots of tables and charts. This is in that sense not a beginner's book. It's a book by an economist for economist. So don't be ashamed to skip sections of the book which are above you pay grade. There are a lot of interesting case studies, which buttress the central theme "Inequality and how money makes more money".His proposal for Global Tax on Capital (as he himself puts it) is quite "utopian" in its construct. However it's a start, because the alternative of high tariffs and capital control is an unsatisfactory substitute.My only advice is to not read the book from cover to cover and pick chapters which interest you. The second half of the book is really interesting. There are some good case studies, like the Havard University's $30 billion endowment and how they manage it, which are quite fascinating to read.So don't miss those fascinating parts. To conclude I would say, Piketty has done a great job of harnessing data over several decades, curated, analysed and build a compelling case of " rising capital inequality",  however, the proposed solution is quite ambitious and needs to be further fleshed out in context of global politics. Enjoy!

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    A book that should be truly suggested at schools and courses in economics and sociology
  

*by C***N on Reviewed in Italy on 15 July 2017*

This book extensively provides data-support for a thesis describing cause of asymmetry of wealth in economy.Particularly, it introduces two simple laws that shows how, independently from political decision-making and when observed to a proper time-scale of decades (not years), countries undergoes same centralisation of wealth pattern.It is interesting because also it does not inquire on centralisation of wealth respect to salaries, but to centralisation of wealth respect to return of capital invested, that explains, simply spoken, the asymmetries of "relative poverty" respect to entrepreneurial landscape, not only "labour" landscape.What I like is that the book pose a legit question, on accessing effect of current capitalism, without assuming ethical or unethical values afore - a book that transparently shows the fingerprint of global economy and yields material for then addressing a governance of economy and seriously reflecting over risks of too much asymmetric societies, with historical examples.A negative aspect I found it is the way it is written - it is not an easy reading book, sometimes a bit "boring" in explanations not because of the examples, but for the way the description is arranged. Maybe because the writer is not English native, nor me, and the English type is academic but hinder a fluent narrative.However, because the topic is so amazing and the thesis so straightforward and powerful, I condone the linguistic challenge and give the information carried in this book a 5 stars!

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    and makes many claims that seem pretty undeniable (which may be the problem for those who ...
  

*by D***E on Reviewed in Canada on 27 June 2014*

A thought-provoking book that is sure to be controversial simply because it questions some long-held and basic beliefs of many people in our economic system.  In fact, reviews of this book are a little hard to sort through since they tend to be part book review, part reaction to having one's deep-seated beliefs questioned.  If one can keep an open mind, though, this book comes at the right time, and makes many claims that seem pretty undeniable (which may be the problem for those who are being asked to rethink some basic assumptions).  The greatest assumption being questioned is the long-held belief that capitalism eventually spreads wealth out over time ... Pikkety (and this seems pretty obvious in our current economy) suggest that, on the contrary, over time capitalism concentrates wealth in fewer and fewer hands.  Even with some pretty obvious evidence that he is right (economic analysis is hardly necessary to see this to be true), many seem to bristle at the idea. The other basic idea that the author puts forward is that if economic growth is slower than capital growth, those accumulating capital will not reinvest money (and be the "job creators" that we always hear about) but will increasingly stash their capital wherever they can get the highest return ... seems like a totally reasonable claim to make, and we need to just look around us to see that this is happening.  In fact, the most obvious example is that "bailed-out" banks have not been re-investing the billions they have been receiving through quantitative easing, but rather have been stashing the money in high interest investments in 3rd world countries. This rather massive volume has many more things to say, but these idea are the two that stand out for me.  Needless to say, this book is a tough sell for those who wish to believe that capitalism is going to right itself if only those in charge would do the right things, that lowering taxes on corporations will lead to job creation, and that austerity programs are the answer to economic woes.  If you already are seeing these things, or if you are open to considering some ideas that might challenge some long-held beliefs this book is a pretty good read.Take the parts that work for you, give a close examination to the rest.  There's some thought-provoking stuff here, but there are also certainly things that will not sit well with those who are still expecting the capital to "trickle down" ... if Piketty is even half right, you're in for a long wait.

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