Thomas Piketty en Amérique

In what sense are we living in a “New Gilded Age”? Facile analogies between the late nineteenth century and our own era have proliferated in recent years. Pundits such as Paul Krugman inserted this analogy into the public conversation in the early 2000s, drawing on empirical work by economists Thomas Piketty and Emmanuel Saez. In underscoring a parallel between the two “gilded” eras, these commentators sketched out two periods marked by economic inequality, with several “anomalous” decades of relative equality in the middle of the twentieth century. This basic U-shaped narrative template has inspired commentators in numerous venues, from The Nation to The Economist, to imagine the shifts of recent decades simply as “a return” to an earlier age. Evoking social, political, and cultural resemblances, these accounts have stressed the resurgence of unfettered markets, economic volatility, government inaction, and the plutocratic reign of money.

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Vers une économie politique et historique Réflexions sur le capital au XXIe siècle

Piketty

2015

Annales

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Résumé Cet article tente de clarifier certains points soulevés dans mon livre Le capital au XXIe siècle. En particulier, j’essaie dans cet ouvrage de poser des jalons en vue d’une histoire multidimensionnelle du capital et des relations de pouvoir entre classes sociales. J’étudie la façon dont les différentes formes de possession engendrent des structures inégalitaires et des compromis sociaux et institutionnels spécifiques.

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Thomas Piketty en Amérique

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A Prophet in his Hometown? the Academic Reception of Thomas Piketty’s “Capital in the Twenty-First Century” Across Disciplines in France and in the United States

A Prophet in his Hometown? the Academic Reception of Thomas Piketty’s “Capital in the Twenty-First Century” Across Disciplines in France and in the United States

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