Capital in the Twenty-First Century

Capital in the Twenty-First Century

• Capitalism, Economics

<p>A <i>New York Times</i> #1 Bestseller<br> An Amazon #1 Bestseller<br> A <i>Wall Street Journal</i> #1 Bestseller <br>A <i>USA Today</i> Bestseller<br> A <i>Sunday Times</i> Bestseller<br>Winner of the <i>Financial Times</i> and McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award<br>Winner of the British Academy Medal<br>Finalist, National Book Critics Circle Award </p><br><p>“It seems safe to say that <i>Capital in the Twenty-First Century</i>, the magnum opus of the French economist Thomas Piketty, will be the most important economics book of the year―and maybe of the decade."<br>―Paul Krugman, <i>New York Times</i></p><p> “The book aims to revolutionize the way people think about the economic history of the past two centuries. It may well manage the feat."<br>―<i>The Economist</i></p><p>“Piketty's <i>Capital in the Twenty-First Century</i> 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."<br>―Steven Pearlstein, <i>Washington Post</i></p><p>“Piketty has written an extraordinarily important book…In its scale and sweep it brings us back to the founders of political economy."<br>―Martin Wolf, <i>Financial Times</i></p><p>“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."<br>―John Cassidy, <i>New Yorker</i></p><p>“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."<br>―Timothy Shenk, <i>The Nation</i></p>