Capital in the Twenty-First Century
Capital in the Twenty-First Century
Piketty, Thomas
Acknowledgments and Reviews
Accolades
- A New York Times #1 Bestseller
- An Amazon #1 Bestseller
- A Wall Street Journal #1 Bestseller
- A USA Today Bestseller
- A Sunday Times Bestseller
- A Guardian Best Book of the 21st Century
- 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
Reviews
"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."
--Paul Krugman, New York Times
"The book aims to revolutionize the way people think about the economic history of the past two centuries. It may well manage the feat."
-- The Economist
"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."
--Steven Pearlstein, Washington Post
"Piketty has written an extraordinarily important book...In its scale and sweep it brings us back to the founders of political economy."
--Martin Wolf, Financial Times
"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."
--John Cassidy, New Yorker
"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."
--Timothy Shenk, The Nation