Piketty Phenomenon : New Zealand Perspectives.

Intro -- Contents -- Introduction -- About the Authors -- Has Capital in the Twenty-First Century Changed Anything? -- Income and wealth distribution -- Piketty's approach -- The Matthew principle -- Policy implications -- Piketty's Book is the Real Article -- Why the Fuss? -- How Economists Might View the Piketty Thesis -- The Promise of a New Politics and a New Economics -- A new politics -- A new economics -- Pickings from Piketty -- What Piketty Means for Us -- Unplugging the Machine -- Gender: the missing discussion -- The orthodoxy of wide earnings differentials -- How radical is Piketty? -- Unplugging the system -- Illuminating Inequality -- Why We Need to Shift to Capital Taxes -- What is the Piketty Model, and Does it Fit New Zealand? -- The relationship between labour and capital -- Drivers of the policy conclusions -- Relevance to New Zealand? -- Bringing Wealth into the Spotlight -- Wealth in New Zealand -- Recalibrating New Zealand -- New Zealand Superannuation -- Working for Families -- Taxation of wealth -- The Future of Inequality -- 1. The book challenges dominant beliefs about elites and inequality -- 2. Inequality became a heated topic after 2008 -- 3. The book clarifies and legitimises middle-class anxieties post-2008 -- 4. The book remains reassuringly conventional -- The future of inequality -- Capital Connections for Education -- Endnotes -- About BWB Texts.

A diverse range of economists and commentators address the relevance of Thomas Piketty's 'Capital in the Twenty-First Century' for New Zealand.

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