After Piketty: The Agenda for Economics and Inequality
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| Rating | : | 4.17 (624 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0674504771 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 688 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-06-15 |
| Language | : | English |
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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 they answer, but they are important questions about a significant social challenge. It also contains thoughtful interventions in debates about the political economy of inequality. Bradford Delong and Marshall Steinbaum, is more interesting than the original. 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 inequal
Laura Tyson and Michael Spence consider the impact of technology on inequality. The rest of the book is devoted to newly commissioned essays that interrogate Piketty’s arguments. Heather Boushey, Branko Milanovic, and others consider topics ranging from gender to trends in the global South. 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,
James B. Delong said 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 be investigated by others. Social scientists thinking of citing on, working along lines related to, or drawing on Piketty should certainly read this book. People who have read Capital in the Twenty-First Century who are curious about how serious people are reacting to and assessing the b. "The book may be relevant to professional researchers but not to the general public" according to A M. 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 book, which is easy to understand by people having just broad background in economy, the current seems to be relevant to professional researchers but not to the general public.
. 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