The Rise and Decline of General Laws of Capitalism
Thomas Piketty's (2013) book, Capital in the 21st Century, follows in the tradition of the great classical economists, like Marx and Ricardo, in formulating general laws of capitalism to diagnose and predict the dynamics of inequality. We argue that general economic laws are unhelpful as a gui...
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American Economic Association
2018
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Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/113636 https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0908-7491 |