Capital in the Twenty-First Century

**A** New York Times **#1 Bestseller An Amazon #1 Bestseller A **Wall Street Journal **#1 Bestseller A **USA Today **Bestseller A **Sunday Times **Bestseller A **Guardian **Best Book of the 21st Century Winner of the **Financial Times **and McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award Winner of the British Academy Medal Finalist, National Book Critics Circle Award** “It seems safe to say that *Capital in the Twenty-First Century* , the magnum opus of the French economist Thomas Piketty, will be the most important economics book of the year―and maybe of the decade.” ―Paul Krugman, *New York Times* “The book aims to revolutionize the way people think about the economic history of the past two centuries. It may well manage the feat.” ― *The Economist* “Piketty’s *Capital in the Twenty-First Century* is an intellectual tour de force, a triumph of economic history over the theoretical, mathematical modeling that has come to dominate the economics profession in recent years.” ―Steven Pearlstein, *Washington Post* “Piketty has written an extraordinarily important book…In its scale and sweep it brings us back to the founders of political economy.” ―Martin Wolf, *Financial Times* “A sweeping account of rising inequality…Piketty has written a book that nobody interested in a defining issue of our era can afford to ignore.” ―John Cassidy, *New Yorker* “Stands a fair chance of becoming the most influential work of economics yet published in our young century. It is the most important study of inequality in over fifty years.” ―Timothy Shenk, *The Nation*