{"product_id":"capital-in-the-twenty-first-century","title":"Capital in the Twenty-First Century","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eA \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e #1 Bestseller\u003cbr\u003eA \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eWall Street Journal\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e #1 Bestseller\u003cbr\u003eA \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eUSA Today\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e Bestseller\u003cbr\u003eA \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eSunday Times\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e Bestseller\u003cbr\u003eA \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eGuardian\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e Best Book of the 21st Century\u003cbr\u003eWinner of the \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eFinancial Times\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e and McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award\u003cbr\u003eWinner of the British Academy Medal\u003cbr\u003eFinalist, National Book Critics Circle Award\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhat are the grand dynamics that drive the accumulation and distribution of capital? Questions about the long-term evolution of inequality, the concentration of wealth, and the prospects for economic growth lie at the heart of political economy. But satisfactory answers have been hard to find for lack of adequate data and clear guiding theories. In \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eCapital in the Twenty-First Century\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, Thomas Piketty analyzes a unique collection of data from twenty countries, ranging as far back as the eighteenth century, to uncover key economic and social patterns. His findings will transform debate and set the agenda for the next generation of thought about wealth and inequality.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePiketty shows that modern economic growth and the diffusion of knowledge have allowed us to avoid inequalities on the apocalyptic scale predicted by Karl Marx. But we have not modified the deep structures of capital and inequality as much as we thought in the optimistic decades following World War II. The main driver of inequality―the tendency of returns on capital to exceed the rate of economic growth―today threatens to generate extreme inequalities that stir discontent and undermine democratic values. But economic trends are not acts of God. Political action has curbed dangerous inequalities in the past, Piketty says, and may do so again.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA work of extraordinary ambition, originality, and rigor, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eCapital in the Twenty-First Century\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e reorients our understa\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Read Room","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":59453752934686,"sku":null,"price":580.0,"currency_code":"BDT","in_stock":true},{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":59453752967454,"sku":null,"price":710.0,"currency_code":"BDT","in_stock":true},{"title":"eBook","offer_id":59453787898142,"sku":null,"price":150.0,"currency_code":"BDT","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1076\/7515\/6766\/files\/51JpJKAHFbL._SL1000.jpg?v=1781287081","url":"https:\/\/www.readroombd.com\/products\/capital-in-the-twenty-first-century","provider":"Read Room","version":"1.0","type":"link"}