Table of Contents
Introduction 1
Capital in the Twenty-First Century, Three Years Later J. Bradford DeLong Heather Boushey Marshall Steinbaum 1
I Reception
1 The Piketty Phenomenon Arthur Goldhammer 27
2 Thomas Piketty Is Right Robert M. Solow 48
3 Why We're in a New Gilded Age Paul Krugman 60
II Conceptions of Capital
4 What's Wrong with Capital in the Twenty-First Century's, Model? Devesh Raval 75
5 A Political Economy Take on W / Y Suresh Naidu 99
6 The Ubiquitous Nature of Slave Capital Daina Ramey Berry 126
7 Human Capital and Wealth before and after Capital in the Twenty-First Century Eric R. Nielsen 150
8 Exploring the Effects of Technology on Income and Wealth Inequality Laura Tyson Michael Spence 170
9 Income Inequality, Wage Determination, and the Fissured Workplace David Weil 209
III Dimensions of Inequality
10 Increasing Capital Income Share and Its Effect on Personal Income Inequality Branko Milanovic 235
11 Global Inequality Christoph Lakner 259
12 The Geographies of Capital in the Twenty-First Century: Inequality, Political Economy, and Space Gareth A. Jones 280
13 The Research Agenda after Capital in the Twenty-First Century Emmanuel Saez 304
14 Macro Models of Wealth Inequality Mariacristina De Nardi Giulio Fella nd Fang Yang 322
13 A Feminist Interpretation of Patrimonial Capitalism Heather Boushey 355
16 What Does Rising Inequality Mean for the Macroeconomy? Mark Zandi 384
17 Rising Inequality and Economic Stability Saluatore Morelli 412
IV The Political Economy of Capital and Capitalism
18 Inequality and the Rise of Social Democracy: An Ideological History Marshall I. Steinbaum 439
19 The Legal Constitution of Capitalism David Singh Grewal 471
20 The Historical Origins of Global Inequality Ellora Derenoncourt 491
21 Everywhere and Nowhere: Politics in Capital in the Twenty-First Century Elisabeth Jacobs 512
V Piketty Responds
22 Toward a Reconciliation between Economics and the Social Sciences Thomas Piketty 543
Notes 567
Acknowledgments 660
Index 661