Kapital for the Twenty-First Century?

Abstract

Commentary on the book "Capital in the 21st Century" by Thomas Piketty, (translation of the book in French into English by Arthur Goldhammer) Belknap Press, 2014, 671 pp. This commentary by James Galbraith appeared in English in Dissent, a Quarterly of Politics and Culture, spring 2014, and can be found at http://www.dissentmagazine.org/article/kapital-for-the-twenty-first-century. Translation of Ola Financiera, from English to Spanish by Hector R. González Peña (School of Economics of the Faculty of Economic and Social Sciences of the Autonomous University of Sinaloa, Culiacán campus) and revision of Eugenia Correa.