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After Piketty : the agenda for economics and inequality / edited by Heather Boushey, J. Bradford DeLong, Marshall Steinbaum.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2017Description: viii, 678 pages : illustrations ; 25 cmISBN:
  • 9780674504776
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • HB501 .A457 2017
Contents:
Introduction: Capital in the twenty-first century / J. Bradford DeLong, Heather Boushey, and Marshall Steinbaum -- I. Reception: The Piketty phenomenon / Arthur Goldhammer -- Thomas Piketty is right / Robert Solow -- Why we're in a new Gilded Age / Paul Krugman -- II. Conceptions of capital: What's wrong with capital in the twenty-first century's model? / Devesh Raval -- What's missing from capital in the twenty-first century? Power / Suresh Naidu -- The ubiquitous nature of slave capital / Daina Ramey Berry -- Human capital and wealth before and after capital in the twenty-first century / Eric Nielsen -- Understanding income inequality in the US: technology and capital in the twenty-first century / Laura Tyson and Michael Spence -- Income inequality, wage determination, and the fissured workplace / David Weil -- III. Dimensions of inequality: The capital income share and interpersonal inequality / Branko Milanovic -- Global inequality / Christoph Lakner -- We're all in this together: inequalities and the zone / Gareth Jones -- The inequality research agenda: data, interpretation, policy / Emmanuel Saez -- Macro models of wealth inequality / Mariacristina De Nardi, Giulio Fella, and Fang Yang -- A feminist interpretation of patrimonial capitalism / Heather Boushey -- What does Piketty mean to macroeconomic forecasting and policy-making? / Mark Zandi -- Rising inequality and economic stability / Salvatore Morelli -- IV. The political economy of capital and capitalism -- The great decline of inequality and the ideology of capitalism / Marshall Steinbaum -- The legal foundations of Piketty's laws of capitalism / David Singh Grewal -- The historical origins of the great divergence / Ellora Derenoncourt -- Implications of capital in the twenty-first century for political science / Elisabeth Jacobs -- Piketty responds: Thomas Piketty.
Summary: Thomas Piketty's Capital in the Twenty-First Century is the most widely discussed work of economics in recent history, selling millions of copies in dozens of languages. But are its analyses of inequality and economic growth on target? Where should researchers go from here in exploring the ideas Piketty pushed to the forefront of global conversation? A cast of economists and other social scientists tackle these questions in dialogue with Piketty, in what is sure to be a much-debated book in its own right. After Piketty opens with a discussion by Arthur Goldhammer, Piketty's translator into English, of the reasons for Capital's phenomenal success, followed by the published reviews of Nobel laureates Robert Solow and Paul Krugman. The rest of the book is devoted to newly commissioned essays that interrogate Piketty's arguments. Suresh Naidu and other contributors ask whether Piketty said enough about power, slavery, and the complex nature of capital. Laura Tyson and Michael Spence consider the impact of technology on inequality. Heather Boushey, Branko Milanovic, and others consider topics ranging from gender to trends in the global South. Emmanuel Saez lays out an agenda for future research on inequality, while a variety of essayists examine the book's implications for the social sciences more broadly. Piketty replies to these questions in a substantial concluding chapter. An indispensable interdisciplinary work, After Piketty does not shy away from the seemingly intractable problems that made Capital in the Twenty-First Century so compelling for so many.--
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

A Foreign Affairs Best Book of the Year

"An intellectual excursion of a kind rarely offered by modern economics."
- Foreign Affairs

Thomas Piketty's Capital in the Twenty-First Century is the most widely discussed work of economics in recent years. But are its analyses of inequality and economic growth on target? Where should researchers go from there in exploring the ideas Piketty pushed to the forefront of global conversation? A cast of leading economists and other social scientists-including Emmanuel Saez, Branko Milanovic, Laura Tyson, and Michael Spence-tackle these questions in dialogue with Piketty.

"A fantastic introduction to Piketty's main argument in Capital , and to some of the main criticisms, including doubt that his key equation showing that returns on capital grow faster than the economy-will hold true in the long run."
- Nature

"Piketty's work laid bare just how ill-equipped our existing frameworks are for understanding, predicting, and changing inequality. This extraordinary collection shows that our most nimble social scientists are responding to the challenge."
-Justin Wolfers, University of Michigan

Hotchkiss author.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: Capital in the twenty-first century / J. Bradford DeLong, Heather Boushey, and Marshall Steinbaum -- I. Reception: The Piketty phenomenon / Arthur Goldhammer -- Thomas Piketty is right / Robert Solow -- Why we're in a new Gilded Age / Paul Krugman -- II. Conceptions of capital: What's wrong with capital in the twenty-first century's model? / Devesh Raval -- What's missing from capital in the twenty-first century? Power / Suresh Naidu -- The ubiquitous nature of slave capital / Daina Ramey Berry -- Human capital and wealth before and after capital in the twenty-first century / Eric Nielsen -- Understanding income inequality in the US: technology and capital in the twenty-first century / Laura Tyson and Michael Spence -- Income inequality, wage determination, and the fissured workplace / David Weil -- III. Dimensions of inequality: The capital income share and interpersonal inequality / Branko Milanovic -- Global inequality / Christoph Lakner -- We're all in this together: inequalities and the zone / Gareth Jones -- The inequality research agenda: data, interpretation, policy / Emmanuel Saez -- Macro models of wealth inequality / Mariacristina De Nardi, Giulio Fella, and Fang Yang -- A feminist interpretation of patrimonial capitalism / Heather Boushey -- What does Piketty mean to macroeconomic forecasting and policy-making? / Mark Zandi -- Rising inequality and economic stability / Salvatore Morelli -- IV. The political economy of capital and capitalism -- The great decline of inequality and the ideology of capitalism / Marshall Steinbaum -- The legal foundations of Piketty's laws of capitalism / David Singh Grewal -- The historical origins of the great divergence / Ellora Derenoncourt -- Implications of capital in the twenty-first century for political science / Elisabeth Jacobs -- Piketty responds: Thomas Piketty.

Thomas Piketty's Capital in the Twenty-First Century is the most widely discussed work of economics in recent history, selling millions of copies in dozens of languages. But are its analyses of inequality and economic growth on target? Where should researchers go from here in exploring the ideas Piketty pushed to the forefront of global conversation? A cast of economists and other social scientists tackle these questions in dialogue with Piketty, in what is sure to be a much-debated book in its own right. After Piketty opens with a discussion by Arthur Goldhammer, Piketty's translator into English, of the reasons for Capital's phenomenal success, followed by the published reviews of Nobel laureates Robert Solow and Paul Krugman. The rest of the book is devoted to newly commissioned essays that interrogate Piketty's arguments. Suresh Naidu and other contributors ask whether Piketty said enough about power, slavery, and the complex nature of capital. Laura Tyson and Michael Spence consider the impact of technology on inequality. Heather Boushey, Branko Milanovic, and others consider topics ranging from gender to trends in the global South. Emmanuel Saez lays out an agenda for future research on inequality, while a variety of essayists examine the book's implications for the social sciences more broadly. Piketty replies to these questions in a substantial concluding chapter. An indispensable interdisciplinary work, After Piketty does not shy away from the seemingly intractable problems that made Capital in the Twenty-First Century so compelling for so many.--

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

  • Introduction (p. 1)
  • Capital in the Twenty-First Century, Three Years Later (p. 1)
  • I Reception
  • 1 The Piketty Phenomenon (p. 27)
  • 2 Thomas Piketty Is Right (p. 48)
  • 3 Why We're in a New Gilded Age (p. 60)
  • II Conceptions of Capital
  • 4 What's Wrong with Capital in the Twenty-First Century's, Model? (p. 75)
  • 5 A Political Economy Take on W / Y (p. 99)
  • 6 The Ubiquitous Nature of Slave Capital (p. 126)
  • 7 Human Capital and Wealth before and after Capital in the Twenty-First Century (p. 150)
  • 8 Exploring the Effects of Technology on Income and Wealth Inequality (p. 170)
  • 9 Income Inequality, Wage Determination, and the Fissured Workplace (p. 209)
  • III Dimensions of Inequality
  • 10 Increasing Capital Income Share and Its Effect on Personal Income Inequality (p. 235)
  • 11 Global Inequality (p. 259)
  • 12 The Geographies of Capital in the Twenty-First Century: Inequality, Political Economy, and Space (p. 280)
  • 13 The Research Agenda after Capital in the Twenty-First Century (p. 304)
  • 14 Macro Models of Wealth Inequality (p. 322)
  • 13 A Feminist Interpretation of Patrimonial Capitalism (p. 355)
  • 16 What Does Rising Inequality Mean for the Macroeconomy? (p. 384)
  • 17 Rising Inequality and Economic Stability (p. 412)
  • IV The Political Economy of Capital and Capitalism
  • 18 Inequality and the Rise of Social Democracy: An Ideological History (p. 439)
  • 19 The Legal Constitution of Capitalism (p. 471)
  • 20 The Historical Origins of Global Inequality (p. 491)
  • 21 Everywhere and Nowhere: Politics in Capital in the Twenty-First Century (p. 512)
  • V Piketty Responds
  • 22 Toward a Reconciliation between Economics and the Social Sciences (p. 543)
  • Notes (p. 567)
  • Acknowledgments (p. 660)
  • Index (p. 661)

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