Pocket Piketty: A Handy Guide to Capital in the Twenty-First Century - Softcover

Roine, Jesper

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1944869352 ISBN 13: 9781944869359

Publisher: OR Books, 2017

Synopsis

We all know the book: it's been hailed as one of the most important documents on how the world economy works, or doesn't work, and it's been a colossal bestseller since it first appeared in 2014, with more than 1.5 million copies sold. Thomas Piketty's Capital in the Twenty-First Century makes a powerful case that wealth, and accumulated wealth, tends to stay where it lands: and with the passage of time, just gets bigger... and bigger. But how many of us who bought or borrowed the book--or even, perhaps, reviewed it--have read more than a fraction of its 696 pages? How many more shuddered at the thought of committing $40 to such a venture? And how many of Piketty's groundshaking concepts have gone unappreciated, all for want of intellectual stamina?

Deliverance is at hand in the form of Pocket Piketty, written in clear and accessible prose by an experienced economist and teacher-and one whose work was relied on by Piketty for his masterpiece. In this handy and slim volume, Jesper Roine explains all things Piketty.

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Review:

Selected praise for Pocket Piketty

"An ideal companion to Piketty's Capital in the Twenty-First Century, and who better to write it than Jesper Roine, a highly recognized economist and specialist of long-run inequality. For students and those in need of easier access to Piketty's work, Roine lays out the story in clear terms while providing very useful historical and economic background." --David Stasavage, Chair and Professor of Politics, New York University; author, Taxing the Rich: A History of Fiscal Fairness in the United States and Europe

"Jesper Roine has written a superb summary of the most talked-about economics book of the 21st century. Jesper's sharp analytical mind, deep social interest and his own respected research in the field make him the ideal author of a book like this." --Magnus Henrekson, Professor and managing director of The Research Institute of Industrial Economics

"A very readable summary of Piketty's important book, written by a leading expert on inequality data." --Per Krusell, Professor of Economics, Stockholm University; chair, Nobel Prize committee, Prize for Economic Sciences

About the Author:

Jesper Roine is an expert on wealth and income inequality, as well as one of the researchers who has contributed to the World Top Incomes Database upon which Piketty's research is based. He is an associate professor of Economics at SITE at the Stockholm School of Economics and has been published, extensively, on the topic of income and wealth inequality. Together with his colleague Daniel Waldenström at Uppsala University, he is responsible for the Swedish data on long-run income and wealth inequality used in Thomas Piketty's Capital in the Twenty-First Century.

About this edition

• Publisher: OR Books
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 1944869352
• ISBN 13: 9781944869359
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 160