Understanding Piketty's Capital in the Twenty-First Century

Steven Pressman is Professor of Economics at Colorado State University in Fort Collins, Colorado, and Professor Emeritus of Economics and Finance at Monmouth University in West Long Branch, NJ. He also serves as North American Editor of the Review of Political Economy, Book Review Editor of the Eastern Economic Journal, and Treasurer of the Eastern Economic Association. Pressman has published more than 150 articles in refereed journals and as book chapters, and has authored or edited 17 books, including A New Guide to Post Keynesian Economics (2001), Alternative Theories of the State (2006), and 50 Major Economists, 3rd ed. (2013), which has been translated into five different languages. He is also a frequent contributor to local newspapers, and appears frequently on local and national TV.

• 1. Hello Piketty 2. The Fear of All Sums: Measuring Income Distribution 3. No Tomfoolery: The Costs of Inequality 4. A Big Piketty-ture (Part I of Capital: Introduction and Chapters 1-2) 5. In a Pretty Pikkel-ty (Part II of Capital: Chapters 3-6) 6. Pikket-ing Income Inequality (Part III of Capital: Chapters 7-12) 7. A Taxing Wealth of Polity Options (Part IV of Capital: Chapters 13-16) 8. Giles Goat Boy? 9. A Somewhat Nit-Piketty Conclusion

Steven Pressman’s book is the most balanced, sympathetic and constructive critique of Piketty’s Capital in the Twenty-First Century I have yet read...It is in many ways, and as a critical text, a significant improvement on the original. Pressman does more than provide an accessible account of the key aspects of Capital. Rather, Pressman takes the key aspects as a point of departure in order to provide fuller contextualised explanation of the trends and issues arising as well as the accounts of theory that Piketty could himself have usefully incorporated in Capital.' -- Jamie Morgan, Review of Political Economy‘This is the most important critique of the most important book in economics in recent years. Pressman breaks down Piketty in a manner that will be valuable to both scholars and students alike.’ — Robert S. Rycroft, Professor of Economics, University of Mary Washington, USA‘Piketty's Capital in the 21st Century is one of the most widely discussed books so far in this century, but what is badly needed is a good-humored, readable introduction, which is provided by Steven Pressman's Understanding Piketty's Capital in the 21st Century. Like Piketty, Pressman is a chronicler of inequality.’ — E. Ray Canterbery, Professor Emeritus of Economics, Florida State Univerisity, USA