Capital in the Twenty-First Century (The Macat Library)
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| Rating | : | 4.62 (597 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1912127717 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 112 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-08-14 |
| Language | : | English |
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His current policy interests include designing distribution methods for end-of-life care, closing labour market skill gaps, and understanding biases in risk-taking by venture capitalists. He is doing postgraduate work at the Pardee RAND Graduate School and works as an assistant policy analyst at RAND. . Nick Broten was educated at the
. He is doing postgraduate work at the Pardee RAND Graduate School and works as an assistant policy analyst at RAND. His current policy interests include designing distribution methods for end-of-life care, closing labour market skill gaps, and understanding biases in risk-taking by venture capitalists. About the AuthorNick Broten was educated at the London School of Economics and the California Institute of Technology
In Capital in the Twenty-First Century, he not only provides detailed and sustained explanations of why he sees existing arguments relating to income and wealth distribution as flawed, but also gives us very detailed evaluations of the significance of a vast amount of data explaining why incomes is distributed in the ways it is.As Piketty stresses, “the distribution question… deserves to be studied in a systematic and methodical fashion.” This stress on evaluating the significance of data leads him to focus on the central evaluative questions, and look in turn at the acceptability, relevance, and adequacy of existing justifications for the unequal distribution of wealth. Thomas Piketty is a fine example of an evaluative thinker. In doing so,