Chronicles: On Our Troubled Times - Softcover

Piketty, Thomas

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0241234913 ISBN 13: 9780241234914

Publisher: Viking, 2016

Synopsis

The return of the best-selling, award-winning economist extraordinaire

With the same powerful evidence, and range of reference, as his global bestseller Capital in the Twenty-First Century - and in columns of 700 words, rather than 700 pages - Chronicles sets out Thomas Piketty's analysis of the financial crisis, what has happened since and where we should go from here.

Tackling a wider range of subjects than in Capital, from productivity in Britain to Barack Obama, it comprises the very best of his writing for Liberation from the past ten years. Now, translated into English for the first time, it will further cement Piketty's reputation as the world's leading thinker today.

About this title

About the Author

Thomas Piketty is Professor of Economics at the Paris School of Economics and Centennial Professor at the LSE. His book Capital in the Twenty-First Century, which argued that when the rate of return on capital exceeds the rate of economic growth, the resulting unequal distribution of wealth causes instability, has global sales so far of more than 2m copies.

From the Back Cover

Praise for Capital in the Twenty-First Century

Piketty's economic analysis and historical proofs are breathtaking - Robert Reich, Guardian

A masterly diagnosis - Paul Krugman, New York Review of Books

A timely, important book - Joseph E. Stiglitz, New York Times

An extraordinarily important book - Martin Wolf, Financial Times

The most important work of political economy to be published in decades - Nick Pearce, New Statesman

From the Inside Flap

The return of the best-selling, award-winning economist extraordinaire

What can we do about inequality?
How can we make the most of being in Europe?
And how can we get the economy moving?

Thomas Piketty's Capital in the Twenty-First Century was a critically acclaimed, prize-winning bestseller, with more than 1.5 million copies sold around the world.

With the same powerful evidence and range of reference - and in columns of 700 words, rather than 700 pages - Chronicles answers these questions and more, setting out Thomas Piketty's thinking through his analysis of the financial crisis, what has happened since and where we should go from here.

Tackling a wider range of subjects than in Capital, from Barack Obama to the migration crisis, it comprises the very best of his writing from the past ten years. Now, translated into English for the first time, it will bring much-needed clarity to our common future and further cement Piketty's reputation as the world's leading thinker today.

Edition details

• Publisher: Viking
• Publication date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0241234913
• ISBN 13: 9780241234914
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 192