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The piketty phenomenon : New Zealand perspectives.
"Few books have had the global impact of Thomas Piketty's Capital in the Twenty-First Century. An overnight bestseller, Piketty's assessment that inherited wealth will always grow faster, on average, than earned wealth has energised debate. Hailed as 'bigger than Marx' (The...
| Cote: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Électronique eBook |
| Langue: | Inglés |
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Wellington, New Zealand :
Bridget Williams Books Limited,
2014.
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| Collection: | BWB texts.
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| Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
Table des matières:
- Introduction; About the Authors; Has Capital in the Twenty-First Century Changed Anything?; Income and wealth distribution; Piketty's approach; The Matthew principle; Policy implications; Piketty's Book is the Real Article; Why the Fuss?; How Economists Might View the Piketty Thesis; The Promise of a New Politics and a New Economics; A new politics; A new economics; Pickings from Piketty; What Piketty Means for Us; Unplugging the Machine; Gender: the missing discussion; The orthodoxy of wide earnings differentials; How radical is Piketty?; Unplugging the system.
- Illuminating InequalityWhy We Need to Shift to Capital Taxes; What is the Piketty Model, and Does it Fit New Zealand?; The relationship between labour and capital; Drivers of the policy conclusions; Relevance to New Zealand?; Bringing Wealth into the Spotlight; Wealth in New Zealand; Recalibrating New Zealand; New Zealand Superannuation; Working for Families; Taxation of wealth; The Future of Inequality; 1. The book challenges dominant beliefs about elites and inequality; 2. Inequality became a heated topic after 2008; 3. The book clarifies and legitimises middle-class anxieties post-2008.
- 4. The book remains reassuringly conventionalThe future of inequality; Capital Connections for Education; Endnotes; About BWB Texts.