1st Edition

An Analysis of Thomas Piketty's Capital in the Twenty-First Century

By Nick Broten Copyright 2017
114 Pages
by Macat Library

120 Pages
by Macat Library

114 Pages
by Macat Library

Thomas Piketty is a fine example of an evaluative thinker. In Capital in the Twenty-First Century , he not only provides detailed and sustained explanations of why he sees existing arguments relating to income and wealth distribution as flawed, but also gives us very detailed evaluations of the significance of a vast amount of data explaining why incomes is distributed in the ways it is. As... Read more

Ways In to the Text 

Who was Thomas Piketty? 

What does Capital in the Twenty-First Century Say? 

Why does Capital in the Twenty-First Century Matter? 

Section 1: Influences 

Module 1: The Author and the Historical Context 

Module 2: Academic Context 

Module 3: The Problem 

Module 4: The Author's Contribution 

Section 2: Ideas 

Module 5: Main Ideas 

Module 6: Secondary Ideas 

Module 7: Achievement 

Module 8: Place in the Author's Work 

Section 3: Impact 

Module 9: The First Responses 

Module 10: The Evolving Debate 

Module 11: Impact and Influence Today 

Module 12: Where Next? 

Glossary of Terms 

People Mentioned in the Text 

Works Cited

Biography

Nick Broten was educated at the London School of Economics and the California Institute of Technology. He is doing postgraduate work at the Pardee RAND Graduate School and works as an assistant policy analyst at RAND. His current policy interests include designing distribution methods for end-of-life care, closing labour market skill gaps, and understanding biases in risk-taking by venture capitalists.