Capital in the Twenty-First Century

Thomas Piketty

Translated by Arthur Goldhammer

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• On the New Republic podcast How to Save a Country, listen to Thomas Piketty explain why addressing global inequality must mean radical changes in economic policy—and what, in the 2020s and beyond, the Global North owes the Global South
• Read why Prospect chose Professor Piketty as a “top thinker for the Covid-19 age”
• Read Wired UK’s April 2020 profile of Piketty
• Read a Nation interview with Piketty (March 2020) on confronting mass inequality during a global pandemic
• Watch a Financial Times video interview with Piketty (February 2020) in which he explains why we need a radical new wealth tax
• Read a (February 2020) New Statesman interview with Piketty in which he warns of “another economic crash”
• Read a Times Higher Education interview with Piketty
• On the Economist podcast The Economist Asks, listen to Piketty debate how unfair societies can learn from their mistakes, and whether inequality is ever in the public interest
• At Five Books, read Piketty’s recommendations in the area of “Historical Change and Economic Ideology”
• Listen to Piketty discuss the 2018 World Inequality Report—and what he would consider the “right” amount of economic inequality to be—on the Harvard Kennedy School’s PolicyCast
• Watch Piketty give the 2018 James M. and Cathleen D. Stone Lecture in Economic Inequality at the Harvard Kennedy School’s Institute of Politics
• At The Wire, read Piketty’s argument that the cure for unequal societies is not a basic income, but a fair wage
• In the Guardian, read Piketty’s warning, in the wake of the 2016 presidential election, that we must rethink globalization lest “Trumpism” prevail globally as well as in the United States
• Watch Piketty discuss Capital in the Twenty-First Century in an in-depth interview with Charlie Rose, on The Colbert Report, PBS NewsHour, Channel 4 News, MSNBC’s All In with Chris Hayes and Now with Alex Wagner, and Bloomberg TV’s Market Markers, and with The Economist, Foreign Affairs, CNN Money, and HuffPost Live
• Read interviews with Piketty at the New York Times blog Economix, Vox, Salon, The New Republic, and the Irish Times
• View “Piketty’s Inequality Story in Six Charts” at the New Yorker blog Rational Irrationality, “Capital in 3 Minutes” from the BBC’s Newsnight, and, at Business Insider, 23 of Piketty’s charts “that will make you worried about the future”
• Read Bill Gates’s review of Capital in the Twenty-First Century
• At the NYT blog Upshot, read “everything you need to know about Thomas Piketty vs. the Financial Times”
• View footage from Piketty’s conversation with United States Senator Elizabeth Warren
• Watch Piketty’s July 2014 lecture [in English] at AK Wien, Austria
• Watch Bill Moyers discuss the book with Nobel laureate Paul Krugman on Moyers & Company
• Read short guides to the book from Vox, the Harvard Business Review, and Tom the Dancing Bug
• Read profiles of Piketty in the New York Times Business section and Sunday Styles section as well as the Chronicle Review
• Listen to Piketty discuss the book on the BBC World Service’s Business Daily, WNYC’s Leonard Lopate Show, WBUR’s On Point, and KPFA’s Against the Grain
• Read lengthy considerations of the book from Thomas Frank at Salon, Larry Summers at Democracy, and the Guardian
• Read analyses of the frenzy surrounding the book at the New Yorker blog Rational Irrationality, The Nation, the Christian Science Monitor, and the Washington Post
• Read coverage of Piketty’s book tour from the New York Times, New York Magazine, New Yorker, New Republic, Guardian, and Wall Street Journal
• In the New York Times, read about the stir Capital in the Twenty-First Century has caused among leading economists, and, in The Week, why it’s the book that “everyone is talking about”
• Follow along with The Economist’s Capital in the Twenty-First Century book club
• Read Bloomburg BusinessWeek’s take on Piketty’s “immodest proposal” for a global tax on wealth
• Listen to Piketty discuss the financial dynamics at work against social mobility on the BBC World Service’s The Forum
• Read a Fortune post on the “fresh perspective” and “wealth of newly compiled data” with which Capital in the Twenty-First Century helps us to understand the actual workings of capitalism
• At Chicago Magazine, read about Thomas Piketty’s theories of inequality and new work on the cognitive rationalization process that happens among the well-off
• On the eve of the 2014 World Economic Forum meetings in Davos, read in the Wall Street Journal about Piketty’s theories on inequality
• Read an early take on Capital in the Twenty-First Century from The Economist
• At The Week, explore Piketty’s conclusions via the classic Disney film The Aristocats
• In the New York Times, read about Piketty’s finding (with Emmanuel Saez) that the top 10 percent of earners in 2012 took home the highest percentage of total American income ever recorded
• In the Guardian, read Piketty and Saez’s argument for substantially raising top marginal tax rates
• Plot graphs of income inequality over the past century via the World Top Incomes Database, an ongoing endeavor by Piketty, Saez, Facundo Alvaredo, and Tony Atkinson
• Download Piketty’s Technical Appendix for the book, which includes additional figures and tables, as well as Internet links to all the series, excel files, programs, formulas, primary sources and technical studies used as the bedrock of Capital in the Twenty-First Century
• Browse a selection of HUP works on capitalism and its discontents

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