The Real-World Economics Review commissioned a number of us to write critical reviews of Thomas Piketty’s Capital in the 21st Century. They include, beside the over-signed, David Colander, Edward Fullbrook (who must be credited for the whole issue), James K. Galbraith, Michael Hudson, Richard Koo, Richard Parker, Ann Pettifor, and Robert Wade – see below for links to their papers.
My own contribution is entitled Egalitarianism’s Latest Foe: a critical review of Thomas Piketty’s Capital in the Twenty-First Century. (A Spanish translation is also available here.) Read on for the links to all 16 articles…
real-world economics review, Issue no. 69, 7 October 2014
Special issue on Piketty’s Capital
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The Piketty phenomenon and the future of inequality 2
Robert Wade download pdf
Egalitarianism’s latest foe 18
Yanis Varoufakis download pdf
Piketty and the limits of marginal productivity theory 36
Lars Syll download pdf
Piketty’s determinism? 44
Ann Pettifor and Geoff Tily download pdf
Piketty’s global tax on capital 51
Heikki Patomäki download pdf
Reading Piketty in Athens 58
Richard Parker download pdf
Pondering Mexican hurdles while reading Capital in the XXI Century 74
Alicia Puyana Mutis download pdf
Piketty’s inequality and local versus global Lewis turning points 89
Richard Koo download pdf
The growth of capital 100
Merijn Knibbe download pdf
Piketty vs. the classical economic reformers 122
Michael Hudson download pdf
Is Capital in the Twenty-first century Das Kapital for the twenty-first century? 131
Claude Hillinger download pdf
Piketty and the resurgence of patrimonial capitalism 138
Jayati Ghosh download pdf
Unpacking the first fundamental law 145
James K. Galbraith download pdf
Capital and capital: The second most fundamental confusion 149
Edward Fullbrook download pdf
Piketty’s policy proposals: How to effectively redistribute income 161
David Colander download pdf
Piketty: Inequality, poverty and managerial capitalism 167
Victor. A. Beker download pdf
Capital in the Twenty-First Century: Are we doomed without a wealth tax? 175
Dean
Board of Editors, past contributors, submissions and etc. 181
