Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Introduction. Capital in the Twenty-First Century, Three Years Later 1
4. I. Reception
5. 1. The Piketty Phenomenon 27
6. 2. Thomas Piketty Is Right 48
7. 3. Why We’re in a New Gilded Age 60
8. II. Conceptions of Capital
9. 4. What’s Wrong with Capital in the Twenty-First Century’s Model? 75
10. 5. A Political Economy Take on W / Y 99
11. 6. The Ubiquitous Nature of Slave Capital 126
12. 7. Human Capital and Wealth before and after Capital in the Twenty-First Century 150
13. 8. Exploring the Effects of Technology on Income and Wealth Inequality 170
14. 9. Income Inequality, Wage Determination, and the Fissured Workplace 209
15. III. Dimensions of Inequality
16. 10. Increasing Capital Income Share and Its Effect on Personal Income Inequality 235
17. 11. Global Inequality 259
18. 12. The Geographies of Capital in the Twenty- First Century: Inequality, Political Economy, and Space 280
19. 13. The Research Agenda after Capital in the Twenty-First Century 304
20. 14. Macro Models of Wealth Inequality 322
21. 15. A Feminist Interpretation of Patrimonial Capitalism 355
22. 16. What Does Rising Inequality Mean for the Macroeconomy? 384
23. 17. Rising Inequality and Economic Stability 412
24. IV. The Political Economy of Capital and Capitalism
25. 18. Inequality and the Rise of Social Democracy: An Ideological History 439
26. 19. The Legal Constitution of Capitalism 471
27. 20. The Historical Origins of Global Inequality 491
28. 21. Everywhere and Nowhere: Politics in Capital in the Twenty-First Century 512
29. V. Piketty Responds
30. 22. Toward a Reconciliation between Economics and the Social Sciences 543
31. Notes 567
32. Acknowledgments 660
33. Index 661