Capital in the Twenty-First Century

ThomasPiketty ArthurGoldhammer

• Belknap Press: An Imprint of Harvard University Press (2014年4月15日発売)

作品紹介・あらすじ

What are the grand dynamics that drive the accumulation and distribution of capital? Questions about the long-term evolution of inequality, the concentration of wealth, and the prospects for economic growth lie at the heart of political economy. But satisfactory answers have been hard to find for lack of adequate data and clear guiding theories. In Capital in the Twenty-First Century, "Thomas Piketty analyzes a unique collection of data from twenty countries, ranging as far back as the eighteenth century, to uncover key economic and social patterns. His findings will transform debate and set the agenda for the next generation of thought about wealth and inequality. Piketty shows that modern economic growth and the diffusion of knowledge have allowed us to avoid inequalities on the apocalyptic scale predicted by Karl Marx. But we have not modified the deep structures of capital and inequality as much as we thought in the optimistic decades following World War II. The main driver of inequality--the tendency of returns on capital to exceed the rate of economic growth--today threatens to generate extreme inequalities that stir discontent and undermine democratic values. But economic trends are not acts of God. Political action has curbed dangerous inequalities in the past, Piketty says, and may do so again. A work of extraordinary ambition, originality, and rigor, Capital in the Twenty-First Century "reorients our understanding of economic history and confronts us with sobering lessons for today.

感想・レビュー・書評

[hisamo99さんの感想 · 2025年8月16日]

データを用いて格差の推移を明らかにしていた。長期のデータを扱うことの難しさはあまり理解していなかったので参考になった。

経済学だけではなく、他の社会科学も総合して分析することの重要性が述べられていたが、自分はもっと経済学を学ばなあかん。それにしても読むのに時間がかかりすぎた。翻訳を読めば良かったとも思う。

[Hirokoさんの感想 · 2017年5月14日]

The capital-labor split in the long run: not so stable (p.41)

- National income = domestic output + net income from abroad = capital income + labor income
- Global income = global output
- National wealth = private wealth + public wealth = national capital = domestic capital + net foreign capital
(p.45-49)

The capital/income ratio = β
Fx; if a country's total capital stock is the equivalent of six years of national income, we write β = 6 (or β = 600 %)
(p.50)

[Verfassungslehreさんの感想 · 2015年3月4日]

2015年2月10日予約。6月20日借り出したが、これを日本語ではなく英語で2週間で読むのか…さすがに2週間で読み切るのは無理。また借りるしかない。

[yasu-sanさんの感想 · 2015年1月2日]

邦訳書目次HP
http://www.msz.co.jp/book/detail/07876.html
NHKパリ白熱教室
http://www.nhk.or.jp/hakunetsu/paris/archives.html
ピケティ『21世紀の資本』を読む
http://www.seidosha.co.jp/index.php?9784791712892
トマ・ピケティ東大講義「21世紀の資本」
http://todai.tv/contents-list/events/piketty/capital-21c-en
Talking Politics （2020.8.27）
https://www.talkingpoliticspodcast.com/blog/2020/273-thomas-piketty-three-years-on
https://ameblo.jp/yasuryokei/entry-12620956873.html

資本とイデオロギー
https://www.msz.co.jp/book/detail/09048/
https://cruel.hatenablog.com/entry/2023/09/18/043105

[maimai1012さんの感想 · 2014年12月27日]

12/27 再開