A note on Piketty's Capital in the Twenty-First Century

Cambridge Journal of Economics

Volumn 38, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 1275-1284

  Rowthorn, Robert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Distribution of income; Economic growth; National wealth; Piketty

Indexed keywords

CAPITAL; ECONOMIC GROWTH; INCOME DISTRIBUTION; INVESTMENT; PRICE DYNAMICS; THEORETICAL STUDY; TWENTY FIRST CENTURY; CAPITAL FLOW; ECONOMIC THEORY; FUTURE PROSPECT; TREND ANALYSIS;

EID: 84906850545     PISSN: 0309166X     EISSN: 14643545     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cje/beu031     Document Type: Article

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