The politics of Piketty: What political science can learn from, and contribute to, the debate on Capital in the Twenty-First Century

British Journal of Sociology

Volumn 65, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 678-695

  Hopkin, Jonathan ^a  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Capital; Inequality; political science; Institutions

Indexed keywords

ECONOMICS; HISTORY; HUMAN; INCOME; LITERATURE; POLICY; POLITICAL SYSTEM; POLITICS; SOCIAL WELFARE; SOCIOECONOMICS; SOCIOLOGY;

CAPITALISM; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 21ST CENTURY; HUMANS; INCOME; LITERATURE; POLITICS; PUBLIC POLICY; SOCIAL WELFARE; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SOCIOLOGY;

EID: 84918493519     PISSN: 00071315     EISSN: 14684446     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1468-4446.12110     Document Type: Article

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