Pocket Piketty
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Overview
Thomas Piketty’s Capital in the Twenty-First Century has been hailed as a masterpiece, making a powerful case that wealth inequality is not an accident, but rather an inherent feature of capitalism. But how many of us who bought or borrowed the book have read more than a fraction of its 700+ pages? And how many of Piketty’s groundbreaking ideas have gone unappreciated, all for want of intellectual stamina?
In this handy volume, Jesper Roine – whose own work was relied upon by Piketty – explains in clear and accessible prose the key concepts behind, and controversies surrounding, Piketty’s landmark work.
A handy introduction to one of the 21st century’s most important works on the economy.
The most up-to-date and concise guide to Piketty’s 1.5 million bestselling work - ideal for students.
Author is an expert in the field and contributed to the database on which Piketty based his work.
Already a bestseller in Sweden with over 40,000 copies sold.
Preface
Part I: The Underlying Research
Why all the Fuss?
Why this Book?
The Underlying Research
The Distribution of Income Over the Twentieth Century
Top Income Shares Over the Twentieth Century
Four Key Insights
Why Does This Matter?
Technology, Education, and the Possibility of a New Kuznets Curve after 1980?
Part II: Summary of Capital in the Twenty-First Century
Structure of the Book
Introduction
1. Income and Capital
2. The Dynamics of the Capital/Income Ratio
3. The Structure of Inequality
4. Regulating Capital in the Twenty-First Century
Conclusion
Part III: Is Thomas Piketty right?
An ideal companion to Piketty. For students and those in need of easier access to Piketty’s work, Roine lays out the story in clear terms while providing very useful historical and economic background.
An authoritative, coherent and clearly written introduction to Piketty. It is a much needed critical guide to Piketty’s work and an invaluable teaching tool.
Jesper Roine has written a superb summary of the most talked-about economics book of the 21st century. Jesper’s sharp analytical mind, deep social interest and his own respected research in the field make him the ideal author of a book like this.
A very readable summary of Piketty’s important book, written by a leading expert on inequality data.
Provides invaluable support for students interested in Piketty’s landmark work and the debate that it has generated. This book is one that every student reading Capital in the Twenty First Century should use.
This book is for people who were interested in Piketty’s analysis of inequality, but found his book too ponderous to finish. That includes me! Roine compresses Piketty’s magnum opus down to 160 digestible pages, not by losing detail, but by expressing the essential data and analysis in a concise, accessible way.
- Title: Pocket Piketty
- Author: Jesper Roine
- Publisher: Zed Books
- Print Publication Date: 2017
- Logos Release Date: 2024
- Pages: 160
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Ebook
- ISBNs: 9781786992352, 1786992353
- Resource ID: LLS:9781786992352
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2025-04-22T14:47:07Z
Jesper Roine is an expert on wealth and income inequality, as well as one of the researchers who has contributed to the World Top Incomes Database upon which Piketty's research is based. He is an associate professor of Economics at SITE at the Stockholm School of Economics and has been published, extensively, on the topic of income and wealth inequality. Together with his colleague Daniel Waldenström at Uppsala University, he is responsible for the Swedish data on long-run income and wealth inequality used in Thomas Piketty's Capital in the Twenty-First Century.
Jesper Roine is an expert on wealth and income inequality, as well as one of the researchers who has contributed to the World Top Incomes Database upon which Piketty's research is based. He is an associate professor of Economics at SITE at the Stockholm School of Economics and has been published, extensively, on the topic of income and wealth inequality. Together with his colleague Daniel Waldenström at Uppsala University, he is responsible for the Swedish data on long-run income and wealth inequality used in Thomas Piketty's Capital in the Twenty-First Century.