Anti-Piketty: Capital for the 21st-Century [Paperback]

Anti-Piketty: Capital for the 21st Century offers a resounding critique of Thomas Pikettys 2014 best-seller, Capital in the 21st Century.Thomas Pikettys book Capital in the Twenty-First Century has enjoyed great success, both among academics and the general public. Its influence on politics also cannot be denied. His book provided something people had waited for  a new scientific theory about wealth and inequality. However, there were major criticisms of not only the vision, the empirical and historical work, and the theory but also of the political recommendations of Thomas Piketty. Anti-Piketty: Capital for the 21st Century collects those essential criticisms from twenty specialistseconomists, historians and tax expertswho provide scientific and rigorous arguments against Pikettys central theses. These researchers, who come from many countries and many backgrounds, examine the notions of inequality, growth, wealth and capital that Piketty treated in his book. They show in new ways how inequality did not explode, the rich are not rentiers but rather entrepreneurs who take risks and create millions of jobs, that wealth can not indefinitely grow faster than economic growth, and that radical taxation does not solve problems but aggravates them.Preface (TBC)Jeffrey Miron?IntroductionJean-Philippe Delsol and Emmanuel Martin?Part 1. An Apocalyptic VisionSection 1. No Declining Inequality?1. The Great Process of Equalization of Conditions by Jean-Philippe Delsol2. Longevity, Education, and the Huge New Worldwide Increases in Equality by Nicholas EberstadtSection 2. An Anti-Rich Bias3. Where Are the Super Rich of 1987? by Juan Ram?n Rallo4. Piketty on Management and Wealth by Henri Lepage5. The Sociology of Pikettys Anti-Rich Stance by Nicolas LecaussinSection 3. No Capital for the Poor?6. Piketty Gets It Wrong by Michael Tanner7. Thomas Pikettys Great Contradiction by Juan Ram?n Rallo8. Piketty and Emerging Markets by ?lvaro Vargas Llosa?Part 2. Criticizing the lĂB