Thomas Piketty

#capitalinthe21stcentury #ThomasPiketty #LecapitalauXXIesiècle Capital in the 21st Century. What are the grand dynamics that drive the accumulation and distribution of capital? Questions about the long-term evolution of inequality, the concentration of wealth, and the prospects for economic growth lie at the heart of political economy. But satisfactory answers have been hard to find for lack of adequate data and clear guiding theories. In Capital in the Twenty-First Century, Thomas...

La Chine est-elle communiste ou capitaliste ? : https://youtu.be/gGo_U5Wxd1I

Today I read part of chapter 7 from the book "Capital in the 21st Century" by Thomas Piketty. It was a really interesting chapter and hoped I summarized/questioned it well here. Stay tuned for more content on reviewing "Capital in the 21st Century"! Image source used in the video from: https://blogbibhecparis.wordpress.com/2014/06/16/capital-in-the-twenty-first-century-sparking-a-debate/

Den franske økonomen Thomas Piketty er blitt hyllet internasjonalt for sine bidrag til en grundigere og mer systematisk forståelse av utviklingen av, og årsakene til, den økende økonomiske ulikheten. I 2020 kom Piketty med boka «Kapital og Ideologi» - en oppfølger av den nå verdenskjente «Kapitalen i det 21.århundret». Her tar han for seg ulikhetens politiske og ideologiske historie og diskuterer hvordan ideologier...

#TransmisiónEnVivo Ciclo de conferencias Thomas Piketty y el desarrollo del capitalismo "La desigualdad es ideológica y política". Tercera conferencia: "Piketty: capitalismo y alternativas".

Last weekend, the G7 ministers announced their intention to apply a minimum tax rate of 15% on the offshore profits of multinationals. Let us be clear: if we leave it at that, it is nothing more and nothing less than the formalisation of a real licence to defraud for the most powerful players. For small and medium-sized enterprises as well as for the working and middle classes, it is impossible to create a subsidiary to relocate its profits or income to a tax haven. For all these...

In most of history and most countries, the top decile owned most of the total wealth. This could be assumed as a constant of societies. Governments and laws of course play a role in smoothing out the distribution to make it fairer, but the scope of its impacts in my opinion will stay limited. What you can do instead is to Become So Good They Can't Ignore You (Cal Newport). I highly recommend reading Cal Newport's books: Become So Good They Can't Ignore You and Deep Work. You can check his...

Occorre un sistema che consenta un’ampia condivisione del potere, della ricchezza e della gestione delle imprese. Un socialismo partecipativo, che superi i limiti sia del capitalismo che del socialismo di Stato. http://www.festivaleconomia.it

The need for power sharing, co-management and the permanent circulation of wealth, and the difference both with old and new forms of state intervention in Europe and the USA and state socialism in China. http://www.festivaleconomia.it