Chronicles - On Our Troubled Times

Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext 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.

Product details

• Authors: Thomas Piketty
• Publisher: Viking
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 07.04.2016
• EAN: 9780241234914
• ISBN: 978-0-241-23491-4
• No. of pages: 181
• Dimensions: 134 mm x 214 mm x 14 mm
• Series: Viking
• Subject: Non-fiction book