{"id":1854,"date":"2015-01-09T13:57:06","date_gmt":"2015-01-09T13:57:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/?p=1854"},"modified":"2024-11-26T17:50:25","modified_gmt":"2024-11-26T17:50:25","slug":"thomas-piketty-and-capital-in-the-twenty-first-century","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/2015\/01\/09\/thomas-piketty-and-capital-in-the-twenty-first-century\/","title":{"rendered":"Thomas Piketty and Capital in the Twenty-First Century"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The author of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Capital_in_the_Twenty-First_Century\">Capital in the Twenty-First Century<\/a>\u00a0(2013) was in the news over xmas as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-europe-30650097\">he rejected an honour from the French government,<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here are some free resources which will enable you to find out more about his work<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>He is professor (directeur d&#8217;\u00e9tudes) at the \u00c9cole des hautes \u00e9tudes en sciences sociales and Professeur \u00e0 l&#8217;Ecole d&#8217;\u00e9conomie de Paris\/Paris School of Economics. where <a href=\"http:\/\/piketty.pse.ens.fr\/fr\/\">his website<\/a> lists recent activities. The <a href=\"http:\/\/piketty.pse.ens.fr\/fr\/publication\">publications section<\/a> includes some additional data files and papers in full text.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hup.harvard.edu\/catalog.php?isbn=9780674430006\">Harvard University press website<\/a> has links from the publications page to associated materials including reviews and lectures by Piketty<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ted.com\/talks\/thomas_piketty_new_thoughts_on_capital_in_the_twenty_first_century?language=en\">Ted has a 20 minute talk<\/a> from the author which explains his findings.<\/li>\n<li>He also discusses the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2014\/06\/02\/watch-elizabeth-warren_n_5434250.html\">causes of inequality in a debate<\/a> with Elizabeth Warren during a Huffington Post event from 2014 (48 minutes)<\/li>\n<li>If this is too complicated. See an explanation of his key work <a href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/blogs\/economist-explains\/2014\/05\/economist-explains\">Capital in 4 paragraphs from the Economist.<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.voxeu.org\/article\/piketty-s-second-law-capitalism-vs-standard-macro-theory\">VoxEU.org<\/a>\u00a0a policy portal set up by the Centre for Economic Policy Research has some more in-depth discussion.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The author of Capital in the Twenty-First Century\u00a0(2013) was in the news over xmas as he rejected an honour from the French government, Here are some free resources which will enable you to find out more about his work He is professor (directeur d&#8217;\u00e9tudes) at the \u00c9cole des hautes \u00e9tudes en sciences sociales and Professeur [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":89,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[194,235],"class_list":["post-1854","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","tag-capitalism","tag-economics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1854","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/89"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1854"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1854\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1855,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1854\/revisions\/1855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}