Capital in the Twenty-First Century - Thomas Piketty, Arthur Goldhammer, Harvard University Press

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