Anti-Piketty

Anti-Piketty: Capital for the 21st Century offers a resounding critique of Thomas Piketty's 2014 best-seller, Capital in the 21st Century.

Preface (TBC)Jeffrey MironIntroduction Jean-Philippe Delsol and Emmanuel MartinPart 1. An Apocalyptic VisionSection 1. No Declining Inequality?1. The Great Process of Equalization of Conditions by Jean-Philippe Delsol2. Longevity, Education, and the Huge New Worldwide Increases in Equality by Nicholas EberstadtSection 2. An Anti-Rich Bias3. Where Are the "Super Rich" of 1987? by Juan Ramón Rallo4. Piketty on Management and Wealth by Henri Lepage5. The Sociology of Piketty's Anti-Rich Stance by Nicolas LecaussinSection 3. No Capital for the Poor?6. Piketty Gets It Wrong by Michael Tanner7. Thomas Piketty's Great Contradiction by Juan Ramón Rallo8. Piketty and Emerging Markets by Álvaro Vargas Llosa Part 2. Criticizing the Empirical Strength of Capital in the 21st CenturySection 4. On Capital and Incomes: Questionable Data, Regrettable Omissions9. Piketty's Numbers Don't Add Up by Martin Feldstein10. The Rich, and Everyone Else, Get Richer by Richard Burkhauser11. Is Housing Capital? by Henri Lepage12. How to Inflate the Return of Capital by Jean-Philippe DelsolSection 5. Forging Statistics, Historical Inconsistencies13. The Financial Times vs. Piketty by Chris Giles14. Piketty Is Misleading about the Swedish Case by Malin Sahlén and Salim Furth15. Challenging the Empirical Contribution of Thomas Piketty's Capital in the 21st Century by Phillip W. Magness and Robert P. Murphy Part 3. Theory and PolicySection 6. The Dangers of the Historicist Method16. The Rise and Decline of the General Laws of Capitalism by Daron Acemölu and James A. Robinson17. Get Real: A Review of Thomas Piketty's Capital in the 21st Century by Donald J. BoudreauxSection 7. What Can We Conclude From 18. Capital, Returns, and Risk: A Critique of Thomas Piketty's Capital in the 21st Century by Randall Holcombe19. Piketty's World Formula by Hans-Werner Sinn20. A Controversial Assumption by Henri Lepage 21. An Infinite Growth of Large Fortunes? The Limits of Mathematics by Jean-Philippe DelsolSection 8. Taxation: Consequences of Piketty's Policies and Alternative Reforms.22. Piketty's Plan for Equality Would Reduce Personal Freedom and Undermine Growth by James A. Dorn23. Tax Reform: Not the Piketty Way by Jean-Philippe Delsol and Nicolas Lecaus