Bøger af Thomas Piketty

Den franske økonom Thomas Piketty er tilbage med en ny bog på 1.100 sider med opfølgeren til sin internationale bestseller ‘Kapitalen i det 21. århundrede’. Som en af verdens førende økonomer har Piketty formået at skabe en bog, om hvordan ulighed har udviklet sig i hele verden over de sidste mange hundrede år. En bemærkelsesværdig og dynamisk bog, som giver en forrygende gennemgang af verdenshistorien. Piketty har sat en ny dagsorden for debatten verden over omkring kapitalisme, ulighed og politiske styreformer. I sin tidligere bog dokumenterede han stigningen af ulighed, og hans forskning bredte sig overalt i verden. I dag er et af de 17 verdensmål ‘mindre ulighed’. I sin nye bog analyserer han derimod ulighedens historie og lægger vægt på hvordan forskellige ideologier har fastholdt uligheden gennem et årtusinde. Hans konklusion er optimist - og han har udviklet sit eget bud på en ny form for socialisme, som både skaber lighed og bekæmper klimaforandringer, så vi kan komme uligheden til livs. 

Thomas Piketty's Capital in the Twenty-First Century showed that capitalism, left to itself, generates deepening inequality. In this audacious follow-up, he challenges us to revolutionize how we think about ideology and history, exposing the ideas that have sustained inequality since premodern times and outlining a fairer economic system.

Man bliver let pessimistisk på lighedens vegne. Over de seneste to generationer er uligheden steget dramatisk i mange dele af verden. Et problem, som Thomas Piketty har belyst i sin forskning og bøger. I "En kort historie om lighed" minder verdens førende ulighedsøkonom om, at historiens store svingninger giver grund til optimisme. Han viser, hvordan vi gennem århundrederne har bevæget os mod større lighed. Piketty guider læseren igennem de store bevægelser, der har skabt den moderne verden på godt og ondt, og argumenterer for, at vi skal føre kampen mod uretfærdighed videre ved at forpligte alle politiske og sociale systemer på lighed.Vi ved, at vi kan gøre det bedre, skriver Piketty. Fortiden viser os hvordan. Fremtiden er op til os. Thomas Piketty (f. 1971) er professor ved École d’économie de Paris, som han i 2006 var med til at etablere. Han er forfatter til bestsellerne "Kapitalen i det 21. århundrede" (2013) og "Kapital og ideologi" (2019) og essaysamlingen "Mod en ny socialisme" (2021)

”Hvis man i 1990 havde fortalt mig, at jeg i 2020 ville udgive en samling essays med titlen Mod en ny socialisme, ville jeg have opfattet det som en dårlig vittighed.” Sådan begynder Thomas Piketty forordet til denne essaysamling. Men i en tid hvor hyperkapitalismen er gået alt for vidt, er det måske på tide at formulere en ny form for socialisme, som er føderal og demokratisk, grøn, multikulturel og feministisk. Henover de seneste fire år har Thomas Piketty delt sine analyser gennem essays i Le Monde og på sin blog om alt fra den amerikanske valgkamp i 2016 over Brexit til COVID-19-krisen. I Mod en ny socialisme foreligger disse essays for første gang samlet med et nyskrevet forord og forklarende grafik. Bogen giver en unik indgang til en af vor tids største intellektuelles tænkning og vedvarende kamp mod ulighed. THOMAS PIKETTY (født 1971) er professor ved École d’économie de Paris, som han i 2006 var med til at etablere. Han er forfatter til bestsellerne Kapitalen i det 21. århundrede (2013) og Kapital og ideologi (2019).

Det store, meget omtalte og meget roste værk af den franske økonom Thomas Piketty - om økonomi, kapitalisme, ulighed og demokrati. Uomgængelig som en indgang til at forstå nutidens og fremtidens kapitalisme.Værket er af den amerikanske økonom og nobelprisvinder Paul Krugman blevet kaldt "årets vigtigste bog om økonomi – og muligvis årtiets vigtigste".

The world's leading economist of inequality presents a short but sweeping and surprisingly optimistic history of human progress toward equality despite crises, disasters, and backsliding, a perfect introduction to the ideas developed in his monumental earlier books.It is easy to be pessimistic about inequality. We know it has increased dramatically in many parts of the world over the past two generations. No one has done more to reveal the problem than Thomas Piketty. Now, in this surprising and powerful new work, Piketty reminds us that the grand sweep of history gives us reasons to be optimistic. Over the centuries, he shows, we have been moving toward greater equality.Piketty guides us with elegance and concision through the great movements that have made the modern world for better and worse: the growth of capitalism, revolutions, imperialism, slavery, wars, and the building of the welfare state. It's a history of violence and social struggle, punctuated by regression and disaster. But through it all, Piketty shows, human societies have moved fitfully toward a more just distribution of income and assets, a reduction of racial and gender inequalities, and greater access to health care, education, and the rights of citizenship.Our rough march forward is political and ideological, an endless fight against injustice. To keep moving, Piketty argues, we need to learn and commit to what works, to institutional, legal, social, fiscal, and educational systems that can make equality a lasting reality. At the same time, we need to resist historical amnesia and the temptations of cultural separatism and intellectual compartmentalization. At stake is the quality of life for billions of people.We know we can do better, Piketty concludes. The past shows us how. The future is up to us.

Til dig, der ønsker en hurtig indføring i Pikettys økonomiske teori og begreber.Thomas Piketty er en af vor tids mest fremtrædende økonomer og forfatter til den internationale bestseller "Kapitalen i det 20. århundrede". I "Ulighedens økonomi", der oprindeligt udkom i 1997 og er genoptrykt og opdateret lige siden, præsenterer Piketty kernen i sin teori.Han undersøger, hvilke økonomiske mekanismer der producerer ulighed, og hvilke redskaber der kan tages i brug for at modvirke uligheden. Hvordan opnår man en fair omfordeling af kapital? Og hvordan finder man frem til netop den form for om fordeling, der maksimerer kapitalismens produktive potentiale til samfundets bedste?

A chronicle of recent events that have shaken the world, from the author of Capital in the Twenty-First Century

Thomas Piketty’s powerful and bestselling Capital and Ideology is now available in this accessible and richly illustrated full-color graphic novel format. Praised by Piketty himself as a “magnificent adaptation” of his original book, this graphic novel adaptation is perfect for anyone looking to understand the wealth gap and why society is the way it is today. Claire Alet and Benjamin Adam make the original work’s ideas more accessible through the addition of a family saga. Jules, the main character, is born at the end of the 19th century. He is a person of private means, a privileged figure representative of a profoundly unequal society obsessed with property. He, his family circle, and his descendants will experience the evolution of wealth and society. Eight generations of his family serve as a connecting thread running through the book, all the way up to Léa, a young woman today, who discovers the family secret at the root of their inheritance. The book concludes with six compelling proposals for participatory socialism in the 21st century. Friendly and approachable illustrations by cartoonist and children’s book author Benjamin Adam are easy to understand without diluting the subject matter. The material is adapted expertly by Claire Alet, a former journalist at Alternatives Economiques.

I hele Europa får det radikale højre stadig flere stemmer, mens uligheden stiger og venstrefløjen synes at have kollapset. I Den politiske konflikts historie spørger to af verdens førende økonomer, om vi er på vej ind i en ny politisk tidsalder? Og om venstrefløjen overhovedet kan komme til magten igen?Svaret hviler på et enormt datamateriale, som beskriver franske vælgeres adfærd fra Den Franske Revolution i 1789 og frem til i dag. Cagé og Piketty giver ikke alene et unikt historisk indblik i, hvordan demokrati fungerer, deres analyser danner også baggrund for nye perspektiver på fremtidens politiske konflikter.Her vil venstrefløjen, ifølge Cagé og Piketty, potentielt have et stærkt vælgergrundlag, hvis den kan opløse den nuværende territoriale konflikt mellem land og by og i stedet genetablere den sociale konflikt som sin egentlige opgave – både i Frankrig og hele den vestlige verdens demokratier.JULIA CAGÉ, professor ved Sciences Po Paris og forfatter til flere internationalt anerkendte udgivelser om økonomi, demokrati og medier, bl.a. Sauver les médias.THOMAS PIKETTY, professor ved École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales og Paris School of Economics, forfatter til flere internationale bestsellere om økonomi og ulighed, bl.a. hovedværkerne Kapitalen i det 21. århundrede og Kapital og Ideologi.

A Guardian book to look out for in 2024An insightful exploration of the nature of inequality by the internationally bestselling author of Capital in the Twenty-First Century.In his newest work, Thomas Piketty explores how social inequality manifests itself very differently depending on the society and epoch in which it arises. History and culture play a central role, inequality being strongly linked to various socio-economic, political, civilisational, and religious developments. So it is culture in the broadest sense that makes it possible to explain the diversity, extent, and structure of the social inequality that we observe every day.Piketty briefly and concisely presents a lively synthesis of his work, taking up such diverse topics as education, inheritance, taxes, and the climate crisis, and provides exciting food for thought for a highly topical debate: Does natural inequality exist?

"The renowned economist and author of Capital in the Twenty-First Century distills his research on the history of inequality into an accessible, engaging guide to creating a fairer, more sustainable world. In this unique work, Thomas Piketty presents a synthesis of his historical and comparative research on inequalities. Addressing topics as varied as education, inheritance, the climate crisis, the taxation of wealth, and gender disparities, it challenges the idea that there could be natural inequalities and shows that the march toward equality has always depended on political and social struggles. Adapted from Piketty's 2022 lecture at the Musâee du Quai Branly - Jacques Chirac, Nature, Culture, and Inequality makes his important argument available to a wider audience for the first time"--

A comparative and historical perspective, a synthesis of his research on economic inequalities, this accurate text by Thomas Piketty analyzes issues such as education, inheritance, taxation and the persistent gender gap, while stressing the need to drastically reduce the North-South imbalances as a condition to fight against global warming. Faced with hopelessness and conformism, the author reminds us that the road to equality has always been built on political and social struggles.

Det diskuteres jævnligt, i hvilket omfang racisme findes, men ifølge Thomas Piketty kan racisme måles. Den er indlejret i de samfundsmæssige og økonomiske strukturer. Og selvom der overalt kan observeres ulighed, som har at gøre med menneskers ophav, er der begrænset politisk vilje til at sætte ind over for diskrimination og racisme. Vil vi bekæmpe diskrimination, er det nødvendigt at bekæmpe klassemæssig ulighed i bredere forstand og udtænke en transnational model, som giver os mulighed for at måle og modvirke racisme. Thomas Piketty (f. 1971) er professor ved École d’économie de Paris, som han i 2006 var med til at etablere. Han er forfatter til bestsellerne "Kapitalen i det 21. århundrede" (2013) og "Kapital og ideologi" (2019) samt "En kort historie om lighed" (2022).

-Piketty unleashed on real-time economics is a revelation.- -- GuardianThomas Piketty's work has proved that unfettered markets lead to increasing inequality. Without meaningful regulation, capitalist economies will concentrate wealth in an ever smaller number of hands. For years, this critical challenge to democracy has been the focus of Piketty's monthly newspaper columns, which pierce the surface of current events to reveal the economic forces underneath. Why Save the Bankers? brings together selected columns from the period bookended by the September 2008 collapse of Lehman Brothers and the terrorist attacks in Paris in November 2015. In crystalline prose, Piketty examines a wide range of topics, and along the way he decodes the European Union's economic troubles, weighs in on oligarchy in the United States, wonders whether debts actually need to be paid back, and discovers surprising lessons about inequality by examining the career of Steve Jobs. Coursing with insight and flashes of wit, these brief essays offer a view of recent history through the eyes of one of the most influential economic thinkers of our time.¿-Anyone with an interest in politics, monetary policy, or international diplomacy will get a kick out of Piketty's clear discussion.- -- Shelf Awareness-If you have been influenced by Piketty's landmark work on inequality, make sure to read this next.- -- Naomi Klein, author of The Shock Doctrine and This Changes Everything

Thomas Piketty, especialista en desigualdad económica, apuesta por un mundo que avanza hacia la igualdad.El camino hacia la igualdad es fruto de luchas y rebeliones contra la injusticia, y resultado de un proceso de aprendizaje de medidas institucionales y sistemas legales, sociales, fiscales y educativos que nos permitan hacer de la igualdad una realidad duradera. Desafortunadamente, este proceso a menudo se ve debilitado por la amnesia histórica, el nacionalismo intelectual y la compartimentación del conocimiento.Thomas Piketty, economista francés y especialista en desigualdad económica, se dirige a un amplio público y presenta una síntesis que trasciende las fronteras nacionales y disciplinarias. El autor destaca una dimensión optimista porque, tal y como argumenta, hay un movimiento profundamente arraigado que conduce a una mayor igualdad.

This pioneering work by Thomas Piketty explains the facts and dynamics of income inequality in France in the twentieth century. On its publication in French in 2001, it helped launch the international program led by Piketty and others to explore the grand patterns and causes of global inequality research that has since transformed public debate.

The return of the best-selling, award-winning economist extraordinaireWith the same powerful evidence, and range of reference, as his global bestseller Capital in the Twenty-First Century - and in columns of 700 words, rather than 700 pages - Chronicles sets out Thomas Piketty's analysis of the financial crisis, what has happened since and where we should go from here.Tackling a wider range of subjects than in Capital, from productivity in Britain to Barack Obama, it comprises the very best of his writing for Liberation from the past ten years. Now, translated into English for the first time, it will further cement Piketty's reputation as the world's leading thinker today.

Succinct, accessible, and authoritative, Thomas Piketty's The Economics of Inequality is the ideal place to start for those who want to understand the fundamental issues at the heart of one the most pressing concerns in contemporary economics and politics. This work now appears in English for the first time.

The main driver of inequality--returns on capital that exceed the rate of economic growth--is again threatening to generate extreme discontent and undermine democratic values. Thomas Piketty's findings in this ambitious, original, rigorous work will transform debate and set the agenda for the next generation of thought about wealth and inequality.