Nekaj povezav na intervjuje, komentarje ter baze podatkov v povezavi z najbolj vročo knjigo tega leta – “Capital in the 21st Century” Thomasa Pikettyja:

• Read an interview with Thomas Piketty at the NYT’s Economix blog
• At the New Yorker’s Rational Irrationality blog, view “Piketty’s Inequality Story in Six Charts”
• Read Vox’s “short guide” to the book
• Read James Galbraith’s take on Piketty’s Capital in the Twenty-First Century
• Read Paul Krugman on Piketty’s “Capital”: Working for the Owners
• In the New York Times, read about the stir Capital in the Twenty-First Century has caused among leading economists, and, in The Week, why it’s the book that “everyone is talking about”
• Follow along with the Economist’s Capital in the Twenty-First Century book club
• Read Bloomburg BusinessWeek’s take on Piketty’s “immodest proposal” for a global tax on wealth

• Listen to Piketty discuss the financial dynamics at work against social mobility on the BBC World Service’s The Forum
• Read a fortune.com post on the “fresh perspective” and “wealth of newly compiled data” with which Capital in the Twenty-First Century helps us to understand the actual workings of capitalism
• At Chicago Magazine, read about Thomas Piketty’s theories of inequality and new work on the cognitive rationalization process that happens among the well-off
• On the eve of the 2014 World Economic Forum meetings in Davos, read in the Wall Street Journal about Piketty’s theories on inequality
• Read an early take on Capital in the Twenty-First Century from The Economist
• At The Week, explore Piketty’s conclusions via the classic Disney film The Aristocats
• In the New York Times, read about Piketty’s finding (with Emmanuel Saez) that the top 10 percent of earners in 2012 took home the highest percentage of total American income ever recorded
• In the Guardian, read Piketty and Saez’s argument for substantially raising top marginal tax rates
• Plot graphs of income inequality over the past century via the World Top Incomes Database, an ongoing endeavor by Piketty, Saez, Facundo Alvaredo, and Tony Atkinson
• Download Piketty’s Technical Appendix for the book, which includes additional figures and tables, as well as Internet links to all the series, excel files, programs, formulas, primary sources and technical studies used as the bedrock of Capital in the Twenty-First Century
• In še moj kratek povezetek Pikettyjeve knjige “Mar voham Marxa?“

Vir: večinoma Harvard University Press