Pocket Piketty

Name: Pocket Piketty
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SKU: 9781944869359
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A Handy Guide to Capital in the Twenty-First Century

By Jesper Roine

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Pocket Piketty distils the key insights from Thomas Piketty's groundbreaking Capital in the Twenty-First Century, which analyses how wealth tends to accumulate and concentrate over time. Written by Jesper Roine, an economist whose research informed Piketty's work, this accessible volume breaks down complex economic concepts into clear, concise prose, making the essential ideas of Piketty's 696-page bestseller easy to understand and engage with.
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This book is perfect for students, economists, and readers seeking a succinct introduction or companion to Piketty's work, especially those daunted by the length or complexity of the original text.

Thomas Piketty created a classic bestseller of economics: dense, huge, and expensive. Here's the cheat sheet.

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We all know the book: it's been hailed as one of the most important documents on how the world economy works, or doesn't work, and it's been a colossal bestseller since it first appeared in 2014, with more than 1.5 million copies sold. Thomas Piketty's Capital in the Twenty-First Century makes a powerful case that wealth, and accumulated wealth, tends to stay where it lands: and with the passage of time, just gets bigger... and bigger.

But how many of us who bought or borrowed the book—or even, perhaps, reviewed it—have read more than a fraction of its 696 pages? How many more shuddered at the thought of committing $40 to such a venture? And how many of Piketty's groundshaking concepts have gone unappreciated, all for want of intellectual stamina?

Deliverance is at hand in the form of Pocket Piketty, written in clear and accessible prose by an experienced economist and one whose work was relied on by Piketty for his masterpiece. In this handy and slim volume, Jesper Roine explains all things Piketty.

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Selected praise for Pocket Piketty

David Stasavage, Chair at New York University, calls it "an ideal companion" providing clear explanations and valuable historical context. Magnus Henrekson, Professor and managing director at The Research Institute of Industrial Economics, praises Roine's sharp analysis and respected research background. Per Krusell, Economics Professor and Nobel Prize committee chair, describes it as "a very readable summary" by a leading expert on inequality data.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781944869359

Publisher: OR Books

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 15 August 2017

Country: United States

Imprint: OR Books

Illustration: Illustrations

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 107.0mm

Height: 171.0mm

Weight: 250g

Pages: 160

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About the Author

Jesper Roine is an expert on wealth and income inequality, as well as one of the researchers who has contributed to the World Top Incomes Database upon which Piketty's research is based. He is an associate professor of Economics at SITE at the Stockholm School of Economics and has been published, extensively, on the topic of income and wealth inequality. Together with his colleague Daniel Waldenstrm at Uppsala University, he is responsible for the Swedish data on long-run income and wealth inequality used in Thomas Piketty's Capital in the Twenty-First Century.