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Broten Nick - An Analysis Of Thomas Piketty's Capital In The Twenty - First Century - Paperback
Broten Nick - An Analysis Of Thomas Piketty's Capital In The Twenty - First Century - Paperback
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Description: Thomas Piketty is a fine example of an evaluative thinker. In Capital in the Twenty - First Century he not only provides detailed and sustained explanations of why he sees existing arguments relating to income and wealth distribution as flawed but also gives us very detailed evaluations of the significance of a vast amount of data explaining why incomes is distributed in the ways it is. As Piketty stresses the distribution question deserves to be studied in a systematic and methodical fashion. This stress on evaluating the significance of data leads him to focus on the central evaluative questions and look in turn at the acceptability relevance and adequacy of existing justifications for the unequal distribution of wealth. In doing so Piketty applies his understanding of the data to answering the deeply important question of what political structures and what policies are necessary to move us towards a more equal society. Piketty's evaluation of the data supports his argument that inequality cannot be depended on to reduce over time: indeed without government intervention it is highly likely to increase. In addition he evaluates international data to argue that poor countries do not necessarily become less poor as a result of foreign investment. This strong emphasis on the interrogation of data rather than building mathematical models that are divorced from data is a defining feature of Piketty's work.
Title: An Analysis Of Thomas Piketty's Capital In The Twenty - First Century
Author(s): Broten Nick
Publisher: Macat International Limited
Barcode: 9781912127719
Pages: 114 Pages
Publication Date: 7/5/2017
Series: The Macat Library
Category: Economics
Description: Thomas Piketty is a fine example of an evaluative thinker. In Capital in the Twenty - First Century he not only provides detailed and sustained explanations of why he sees existing arguments relating to income and wealth distribution as flawed but also gives us very detailed evaluations of the significance of a vast amount of data explaining why incomes is distributed in the ways it is. As Piketty stresses the distribution question deserves to be studied in a systematic and methodical fashion. This stress on evaluating the significance of data leads him to focus on the central evaluative questions and look in turn at the acceptability relevance and adequacy of existing justifications for the unequal distribution of wealth. In doing so Piketty applies his understanding of the data to answering the deeply important question of what political structures and what policies are necessary to move us towards a more equal society. Piketty's evaluation of the data supports his argument that inequality cannot be depended on to reduce over time: indeed without government intervention it is highly likely to increase. In addition he evaluates international data to argue that poor countries do not necessarily become less poor as a result of foreign investment. This strong emphasis on the interrogation of data rather than building mathematical models that are divorced from data is a defining feature of Piketty's work.
Title: An Analysis Of Thomas Piketty's Capital In The Twenty - First Century
Author(s): Broten Nick
Publisher: Macat International Limited
Barcode: 9781912127719
Pages: 114 Pages
Publication Date: 7/5/2017
Series: The Macat Library
Category: Economics
