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Book Review: Thomas Piketty “Capital in the Twenty-First Century”

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DOI: 10.23977/ieesasm.2019.143

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Wang Yiming

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Wang Yiming

ABSTRACT

Thomas Piketty's “Capital in the Twenty-First Century” It is Both a Serious Academic Work and a Popular and Easy-to-Read Bestseller. This Work Reveals the Phenomenon of Widening the Gap in the Distribution of Modern Society and the Lack of Fairness. and Trying to Find the Root Cause of It from the Economic and Social Systems, and Propose an Improvement Plan. Piketty Quotes a Large Amount of Data in the Book, Denying the Kuznets Curve and the Corresponding Benign Capitalist Views. Once Published, the Book Has Been Widely Discussed in Various Circles.

KEYWORDS

Thomas Piketty, “Capital in the Twenty-First Century”, Capitalism

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