Chronicles: On Our Troubled Times - Softcover

Piketty, Thomas

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0241307201 ISBN 13: 9780241307205

Verlag: Penguin Books, 2017

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The return of the best-selling, award-winning economist extraordinaireWith the same powerful evidence, and range of reference, as his global bestseller Capital in the Twenty-First Century - and in columns of 700 words, rather than 700 pages - Chronicles sets out Thomas Piketty's analysis of the financial crisis, what has happened since and where we should go from here.Tackling a wider range of subjects than in Capital, from productivity in Britain to Barack Obama, it comprises the very best of his writing for Liberation from the past ten years. Now, translated into English for the first time, it will further cement Piketty's reputation as the world's leading thinker today.

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Críticas:

Piketty fans will be fascinated . . . He explains economic concepts to the lay reader with the kind of clarity that comes from a deep understanding of the topic (Ben Chu Independent on Sunday)

Amazing, inspiring, forward-thinking, and pragmatic. There is a pattern forming -- Marx, Keynes, Piketty. As our world changes the surest explanations and most practical solutions change in turn (Professor Danny Dorling, University of Oxford)

The questions explored in these brilliant essays cut to the heart of our failing economic and democratic systems. If you have been influenced by Piketty's landmark work on inequality, make sure to read this next. (Naomi Klein, author of 'This Changes Everything' and 'The Shock Doctrine')

Coming on the heels of his masterwork, Capital in the 21st Century, one might expect this to be the lesser contribution. In fact, Piketty unleashed on real-time economics is a revelation: he is lucid and persuasive - all the more so for being proved right about most of the events he is responding to, even though the full facts only came out later ... For an economist, Piketty draws on a vast and unusual store of honesty and emotional intelligence (Paul Mason Guardian)

Well-written and accessible. He ranges widely, to Brazil, Hong Kong, South Africa and Japan. His take, as you would expect, is solidly left-wing but he does not bludgeon. Is this a collection worth buying? For those who did not get enough of him in Capital... yes (David Smith Sunday Times)

Piketty has transformed our economic discourse. We'll never talk about wealth and inequality the same way we used to (Paul Krugman New York Review of Books)

The perfect accoutrement for a Bernie Sanders rally. It's easier to carry through a crowd than the economist's 685-page best-seller of two years ago, Capital in the Twenty-First Century (Bloomberg)

Thomas Piketty depresses as much as inspires ... Beyond the pleasure of hearing his thoughts, there is a fascination in watching his instant response to events (Nick Cohen Observer)

Piketty is back ... as with Capital, Piketty remains quietly optimistic' (Andrew Neather Evening Standard)

How one economist tried to make sense of a rapidly changing world .... accessible, direct, universally applicable (New Statesman)

Contraportada:

'Piketty unleashed on real-time economics is a revelation' Paul Mason, Guardian

Despatches from the author of the international bestseller of Capital in the Twenty-First Century

Can we do anything about inequality?
What has happened to the European nation-state?
And how can we get the economy moving?

In columns of 700 words, Chronicles answers these questions and more, setting out Piketty's thinking through his analysis of the financial crisis, what has happened since and where we should go from here.

Tackling a range of subjects, from Barack Obama to the migration crisis, it comprises the very best of his writing from the past 10 years. Translated into English, it brings much needed clarity to our common future, and further cements Piketty's reputation as one of the world's leading thinkers.

'Perfectly matched to its moment . . . Piketty has emerged as a rock star of the policy-intellectual world' Larry Summers, Democracy

'Piketty has transformed our economic discourse. We'll never talk about wealth and inequality the same way' Paul Krugman, New York Review of Books

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• Verlag: Penguin Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2017
• ISBN 10: 0241307201
• ISBN 13: 9780241307205
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 1