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Found 12 comments on Capital in the Twenty-First Century:

u/backgammon_no · 7 pointsr/AskSocialScience

The definitive book on the subject is Thomas Picketty's Capital in the 21st century

u/Hermitroshi · 2 pointsr/vancouver

You're a bit off the mark there, who says someone with a mortgage is living beyond their means? Or someone who has paid it off worked super hard, maybe they're just older and have accumulated more wealth? The new homeowner with a mortgage likely has simply accumulated less wealth, likely because they are younger. Remember, property tax is a proxy wealth tax, and taxing wealth is very good and efficient means of tax collection because it's not regressive, as those with wealth have a much lower marginal propensity to spend. If you want to think critically instead of mindlessly brushing off very well accepted and influential work in the fields of wealth and income inequality because of some ideological red scare in your mind that has no basis in reality, I would suggest

https://www.amazon.ca/Capital-Twenty-First-Century-Thomas-Piketty/dp/0674979850/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1525630837&sr=1-1&keywords=Capital+in+the+Twenty-First+Century

this book will give you lots of context and reasoning supported by empirical data.

u/YourRoaring20s · 2 pointsr/financialindependence

Read Piketty's Capital in the 21st Century and get back to me on the estate tax!

u/send_nasty_stuff · 2 pointsr/DebateAltRight

I'm going to over simplify this. Jews have a evolved as a diasporic nomadic people. No land. No weapons. Because they had no land and no weapons they needed to develop another way to defend and attack. Therefore jews spent 2000 years developing a myriad of skills and techniques: usury, intense tribalism, weaponized victimhood, secret societies, specialization, universal high level literacy, nepotism, matriarchy, intense rule following, intense rule bending, miscegenation without losing group identity, business guilds/trade secrets, subversion, d and c tactics, host culture erosion, mandatory civic participation, espionage, fanaticism, theatrics, sex industry specialization and the list goes on and on.

When industrialization happened academics, literacy, specialization, capital and banking became a lot more prized than it was during the agrarian age. (I have a pet theory that Every age 'vaults' a certain type of human. The dark ages vaulted builders. Antiquity vaulted a blend of raw strength and courage and brains.) This industrial and later information age vaulted jews into significantly higher status and wealth than other lower IQ nomadic groups like gypsies that didn't breed their people to value academics and literacy as highly as other traits.

Blood and soil nationalism type people are now under the thumb of this vaulted merchant class.

Roles are basically being flipped because of how quickly capital gets concentrated in industrial capitalist societies.

Culture of Critique covers this in more detail. If you want to learn more about how capital pools I'd encourage Thomas Piketty's book Capital (not an easy read though).

https://www.amazon.com/Capital-Twenty-First-Century-Thomas-Piketty/dp/0674979850

u/Infin8_1 · 2 pointsr/Economics

If you are interested in learning more about this topic the book Capital in the 21st Century is quite informative. Pretty long and sometimes dry, but a thorough analysis of capital throughout history.

u/egtownsend · 2 pointsr/politics

The issue, as Thomas Picketty explains in his book Capital in the 21st Century, is that the return on investment on capital is greater than the return on investment on labor. You earn less by creating jobs than you do by just letting the interest collect in the bank.

u/warwick607 · 1 pointr/badeconomics

Following your logic, moral entrepreneurs like Steven Pinker and Bill Gates who promote Roser's data are incredibly naive regarding world history, colonization, and imperialism. Jason Hickel is attempting to bring these historical factors into the conversation of global poverty in order to contextualize relationships between the global south and global north, something that often gets lost by economists simply "presenting the data".

Following Picketty: “To put it bluntly, the discipline of economics has yet to get over its childish passion for mathematics and for purely theoretical and often highly ideological speculation, at the expense of historical research and collaboration with the other social sciences.”

u/shittybuffaloangler · 1 pointr/worldnews

>Of course there are flaws in capitalism, every system has flaws

True

>we fixed all the major flaws with capitalism durring the tail end of the industrial revolution

False

>Im not arguing NO regulation, Im arguing for minimal regulation as we dont live in an ideal, we live in the real world. Anything but the absolute barest regulation stifles growth.

Okay? No one is arguing for needless overregulation. As it stands, there are problems both with over regulation as well as under regulation in this country.

>And that profit maximization tactic always ends up gutting the company.

False. Tell that to Apple, or Nestle or any other large multinational.

>Yes but people die and when they die their assets spread amongst their children. It takes 3 generations on average for the wealth of an ultra rich person to be spread so thinly it disappears in america.

There are so many problems with using that as a defence against the empirically obvious increasing concentration of wealth. The most obvious being that theis study looked at the rich and not the super rich. The second being that many super rich don't keep their citizenship and/or move their money offshore, as well as avoid taxes by any means possible. I don't know why I would bother responding further to this when there is literally a widely available research publication devoted exactly to the topic:

https://www.amazon.com/Capital-Twenty-First-Century-Thomas-Piketty/dp/0674979850

It's probably available on torrent if you can't/don't want to afford it. Read up.

u/carloscarlson · 1 pointr/economy

That's a good one, have you read it?

Here is another one:
https://www.amazon.com/Capital-Twenty-First-Century-Thomas-Piketty/dp/0674979850

u/AnthonyParchman · 0 pointsr/Anarcho_Capitalism

That is wholly insufficient response, specifically what did hitler do that was socialist but not related to war time production. the primary argument i see in the comments is that hitler centralized and nationalized some industries, by that logic the WPB, and any form of Rationing, Price control, general central planning related to conducting a world war would make a nation socialist.

In truth the cartel act of 1923 allowed german industry to centralize and cooperate in a central manner all germany did was take control for conducting a war. he privatized social programs, suggested privatization of public transit.

Hitler might have called himself a socialist but he had a fundamental fear of communism, this was listed multiple times in Mien Kampf, 203 he specifically says

"In the years 1913 and 1914 I expressed my opinion for the first time in various circles, some of which are now members of the National Socialist Movement, that the problem of how the future of the German nation can be secured is the problem of how Marxism can be exterminated." (Hitler P. 203)

To claim Hitler was a socialist is akin to saying the DPRNK is a democracy because it's in the name.

some further reading

Capital in the 21st Century, https://www.amazon.com/Capital-Twenty-First-Century-Thomas-Piketty/dp/0674979850/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1526865050&sr=8-1&keywords=capital+in+the+twenty-first+century

Against the mainstream: Nazi privatazation in 1930s Germany, https://coreyrobin.files.wordpress.com/2014/04/bel-2010-nazi-privatizations1.pdf

Mien Kampf, http://www.greatwar.nl/books/meinkampf/meinkampf.pdf

The German Dictatorship, https://www.amazon.com/German-dictatorship-structure-national-socialism/dp/B0006C06H4

Im seriously interested in where the logic comes from, can you point me to some source that claims and defends the position: Nazi germany was closer to Communism than Capitalism