After Piketty: The Agenda for Economics and Inequality
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| Rating | : | 4.24 (824 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0674504771 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 688 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-04-13 |
| Language | : | English |
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(Edward Hadas Breakingviews 2017-05-12) . This extraordinary gathering of two dozen authorsworking across disciplinary boundariesinterrogates Piketty’s core claims about the causes, correlates, characteristics, and consequences of high and rising levels of income and wealth inequality in the West. (Justin Wolfers, University of Michigan)The book, edited by economists Heather Boushey, J. It also contains thoughtful interventions in debates about the political economy of inequality. (Janet C. As Piketty says in his gracious response, included at the end of this 660-page volume, the many authors bring a welcome breadth of expertise…Piketty’s commentators raise more questions than t
First! As one of the co-editors of this book, I know it very well. I am greatly pleased with how this project came out—we have very serious people, as Bob Solow would put it, writing very serious takes on what Thomas Piketty has accomplished, where he has gone wrong, and what gaps remain to . A M said The book may be relevant to professional researchers but not to the general public. The book includes many articles that refer to Piketty book. Most of the articles support Piketty's theses and in the final chapter Piketty presents his answers. Unfortunately, none of the article deals with Piketty somewhat controversial ideas regarding capital taxes. Contrary to Piketty bo
But are its analyses of inequality and economic growth on target? Where should researchers go from here in exploring the ideas Piketty pushed to the forefront of global conversation? A cast of economists and other social scientists tackle these questions in dialogue with Piketty, in what is sure to be a much-debated book in its own right.After Piketty opens with a discussion by Arthur Goldhammer, the book’s translator, of the reasons for Capital’s phenomenal success, followed by the published reviews of Nobel laureates Paul Krugman and Robert Solow. Laura Tyson and Michael Spence
. Bradford DeLong is Professor of Economics at the University of California, Berkeley.Marshall Steinbaum is Fellow at the Roosevelt Institute, New York. Heather Boushey is Executive Director and Chief Economist at the Washington Center for Equitable Growth.J