After Piketty: The Agenda for Economics and Inequality

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After Piketty

The Agenda for Economics and Inequality

Edited by: Heather Boushey , J. Bradford DeLong and Marshall Steinbaum

Language: English

Published/Copyright: 2017

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Thomas Piketty’s Capital in the Twenty-First Century is the most widely discussed work of economics in recent history, selling millions of copies in dozens of languages. 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, of the reasons for Capital’s phenomenal success, followed by the published reviews of Nobel laureates Paul Krugman and Robert Solow. The rest of the book is devoted to newly commissioned essays that interrogate Piketty’s arguments. Suresh Naidu and other contributors ask whether Piketty said enough about power, slavery, and the complex nature of capital. Laura Tyson and Michael Spence consider the impact of technology on inequality. Heather Boushey, Branko Milanovic, and others consider topics ranging from gender to trends in the global South. Emmanuel Saez lays out an agenda for future research on inequality, while a variety of essayists examine the book’s implications for the social sciences more broadly. Piketty replies to these questions in a substantial concluding chapter.

An indispensable interdisciplinary work, After Piketty does not shy away from the seemingly intractable problems that made Capital in the Twenty-First Century so compelling for so many.

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Heather Boushey is Executive Director and Chief Economist at the Washington Center for Equitable Growth.

J. Bradford DeLong is Professor of Economics at the University of California, Berkeley.

Marshall Steinbaum is Fellow at the Roosevelt Institute, New York.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Introduction. Capital in the Twenty-First Century, Three Years Later J. Bradford Delong, Heather Boushey and Marshall Steinbaum Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
I. Reception
1. The Piketty Phenomenon Arthur Goldhammer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	27
2. Thomas Piketty Is Right Robert M. Solow Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	48
3. Why We’re in a New Gilded Age Paul Krugman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	60
II. Conceptions of Capital
4. What’s Wrong with Capital in the Twenty-First Century’s Model? Devesh Raval Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	75
5. A Political Economy Take on W / Y Suresh Naidu Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	99
6. The Ubiquitous Nature of Slave Capital Daina Ramey Berry Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	126
7. Human Capital and Wealth before and after Capital in the Twenty-First Century Eric R. Nielsen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	150
8. Exploring the Effects of Technology on Income and Wealth Inequality Laura Tyson and Michael Spence Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	170
9. Income Inequality, Wage Determination, and the Fissured Workplace David Weil Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	209
III. Dimensions of Inequality
10. Increasing Capital Income Share and Its Effect on Personal Income Inequality Branko Milanovic Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	235
11. Global Inequality Christoph Lakner Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	259
12. The Geographies of Capital in the Twenty- First Century: Inequality, Political Economy, and Space Gareth A. Jones Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	280
13. The Research Agenda after Capital in the Twenty-First Century Emmanuel Saez Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	304
14. Macro Models of Wealth Inequality Mariacristina De Nardi, Giulio Fella and Fang Yang Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	322
15. A Feminist Interpretation of Patrimonial Capitalism Heather Boushey Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	355
16. What Does Rising Inequality Mean for the Macroeconomy? Mark Zandi Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	384
17. Rising Inequality and Economic Stability Salvatore Morelli Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	412
IV. The Political Economy of Capital and Capitalism
18. Inequality and the Rise of Social Democracy: An Ideological History Marshall I. Steinbaum Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	439
19. The Legal Constitution of Capitalism David Singh Grewal Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	471
20. The Historical Origins of Global Inequality Ellora Derenoncourt Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	491
21. Everywhere and Nowhere: Politics in Capital in the Twenty-First Century Elisabeth Jacobs Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	512
V. Piketty Responds
22. Toward a Reconciliation between Economics and the Social Sciences Thomas Piketty Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	543
Notes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	567
Acknowledgments Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	660
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	661

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September 24, 2018

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9780674978195

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