scholarly journals Reading Capital in the Twenty-First Century: Thomas Piketty and political economy

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
David M. Kotz ◽  
Terrence McDonough ◽  
Cian McMahon
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
First Century ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
Thomas Piketty

scholarly journals Thomas Piketty – The Adam Smith of the Twenty-First Century?

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jacob Dahl Rendtorff ◽  
Øjvind Larsen
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Adam Smith ◽  
First Century ◽  
The World ◽  
Long Time ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
Thomas Piketty

Piketty’s book, Capital in the Twenty-First Century (2014) has become a bestseller in the world. Two month after its publication, it had sold more than 200.000 copies, and this success will surely continue for a long time. Piketty has established a new platform to discuss political economy.

‘Inequality is not a Problem’: How (Some) Economists Responded to Thomas Piketty

2019 ◽  
Vol 41 (2) ◽  
pp. 359-374
Author(s):  
J. E. King
Keyword(s):  
Moral Philosophy ◽  
Social Costs ◽  
First Century ◽  
Distribution Of Wealth ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
Thomas Piketty

Abstract Thomas Piketty’s Capital in the Twenty-First Century makes hardly any reference to the ethics of inequality. Surprisingly, this is an omission shared by most of his critics. In this paper I investigate the literature on which he and his reviewers might have drawn and speculate on the reasons why they did not. I outline the four ‘views of society’ and the related issues in moral philosophy that were presented by Michael Schneider in his book on the distribution of wealth. I then summarise the criticisms of Piketty made by those few reviewers who did show some interest in ethical questions and examine the slightly earlier and quite different case against reducing inequality made by one of these critics, N. Gregory Mankiw. I consider the economic, political and social costs of inequality identified in a book-length study of Piketty’s work by Steven Pressman, and conclude by reflecting on the reasons for the widespread neglect of moral philosophy by mainstream economists.

Coda: theses on homelessness, public space, and urban resistance

2019 ◽  
pp. 134-138
Author(s):  
Sean Parson
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Political Economy ◽  
Public Space ◽  
Urban Politics ◽  
The United States ◽  
First Century ◽  
Twenty First Century

In the Coda, the lessons and theoretical positions of the entire document are condensed into four short theses, which can start a conversation around the role and politics of a radical homeless urban politics within the context of the twenty-first-century capitalist political economy and the rise of Trumpism in the United States.

Thomas Piketty, Capital in the Twenty-First Century (2014)*

2021 ◽  
pp. 543-550
Author(s):  
Naazneen H. Barma ◽  
Steven K. Vogel
Keyword(s):  
First Century ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
Thomas Piketty
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