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Capital in the 21st Century

by Thomas Piketti
🎧 26 min listen Money & Investments

Why the rich keep getting richer - and what history proves we can do about it.

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Chapter 1 When r exceeds g

When r exceeds g, meaning capital returns beat economic growth, inequality rises automatically - no villain required. The 20th century's middle-class …

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For two centuries, economists promised that growth would
spread prosperity to everyone. Thomas Piketty spent
fifteen years collecting data from twenty countries - and
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