The Contradictions of Capital in the Twenty-First Century -

The Contradictions of Capital in the Twenty-First Century

The Piketty Opportunity
Buch | Hardcover
312 Seiten
2016
Agenda Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-911116-10-3 (ISBN)
93,50 inkl. MwSt
An international team of leading economic historians provide an overview of global developments in the theory and reality of inequality in the light of the work of Thomas Piketty.
This volume of essays builds upon renewed interest in the long-run global development of wealth and inequality stimulated by the publication of Thomas Piketty’s Capital in the Twenty-First Century. It brings together an international team of leading economic historians and economists to provide an overview of global developments in the theory and reality of inequality and its salience in the modern world order.


The contributors take stock of the key concepts involved in contemporary debates – capital, wealth and income distribution, economic development, private and collective assets, financialization, global liberalisation – and evaluate the evidence for both common and contrasting historical trends in national statistical data sources. To the developed economies upon which Piketty drew are added contributions covering Latin America, Africa, India and Japan, providing a global perspective upon a global phenomenon.


The book seeks to provide readers with a deeper awareness and understanding of the significance of inequality in economic development, the varying pace and nature of economic change around the world, and the manner in which this process of change affects the distribution of incomes and wealth in diverse economies. The collection marks an important step in the process of developing Piketty’s analytical framework and empirical material, overcoming some of their limitations and helping to cement a lasting place for inequality in the future agenda of economics and economic history.

Pat Hudson is Emeritus Professor of Economic History at Cardiff University. Her books include The Industrial Revolution (1992), History by Numbers: An Introduction to Quantitative Approaches (second edition 2016) and The Routledge Handbook of Global Economic History (co-editor, 2016). Keith Tribe taught economics at Keele University in the 1980s and 1990s before taking early retirement in 2002. Since then he has continued to write, translate and teach. He is currently teaching the history of economics at the University of Birmingham. His books include Governing Economy (1988), Strategies of Economic Order (1995/2007) and The Economy of the Word (2015).

1. Introduction

Pat Hudson and Keith Tribe


Part I: Concepts and Models

2. Capital and Wealth

G. C. Harcourt, University of New South Wales and Keith Tribe


3. Inequality

Keith Tribe


4. Models, Money and Housing

Avner Offer, University of Oxford


Part II: Piketty in Western National Contexts

5. French Idiosyncracies

Gauthier Lanot, Umeå University


6. Fact or Fiction? Complexities of Economic Inequality in Twentieth-Century Germany

Jan-Otmar Hesse, University of Bayreuth


7. Collective Wealth Formation: Conflict and Compromise in Sweden, 1950-2000

Ylva Hasselberg and Henry Ohlsson, Uppsala University


8. A Confusion of Capital in the United States

Mary A. O'Sullivan, University of Geneva


9. Distributional Politics: The Search for Equality in Britain since the First World War

Jim Tomlinson, University of Glasgow


Part III: Piketty: Global Commentaries

10. Looking at Piketty from the Periphery

Luis Bértola, Universidad de la República, Uruguay


11. The Differences of Inequality in Africa

Patrick Manning and Matt Drwenski, University of Pittsburgh


12. Income Distribution in Pre-War Japan

Tetsuji Okazaki, University of Tokyo


13. Piketty and India

Prasannan Parthasarathi, Boston College


Part IV: Prospect

14. Goals and Measures of Development: The Piketty Opportunity

Pat Hudson


15. Wealth and Income Distribution: New Theories for a New Era

Ravi Kanbur,Cornell University and Joseph E. Stiglitz, Columbia University

Erscheinungsdatum
Verlagsort Newcastle upon Tyne
Sprache englisch
Maße 156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt Geschichte Teilgebiete der Geschichte Wirtschaftsgeschichte
Wirtschaft Allgemeines / Lexika
Wirtschaft Volkswirtschaftslehre Wirtschaftspolitik
ISBN-10 1-911116-10-X / 191111610X
ISBN-13 978-1-911116-10-3 / 9781911116103
Zustand Neuware
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