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¡Ciudadanos, a las urnas!
¡Ciudadanos, a las urnas!, el más reciente libro del economista más influyente de los últimos tiempos, asume el desafío de ayudarnos a entender un mundo atravesado por contradicciones: los proyectos de integración regional europea chocan con el Brexit, las promesas de regulación financiera no hacen mella en los paraísos fiscales, un avance tecnológico que habilita un progreso social sin precedentes convive con formas extremas de sacralizar la propiedad privada y estigmatizar a los perdedores. En crónicas ágiles, polémicas y ricas en hipótesis originales, Thomas Piketty se nutre de su formidable corpus de datos pero también de sus conversaciones con estudiantes, militantes, lectores, autores, actores de la sociedad civil y del mundo económico, cultural y político, y confirma su talento como uno de los intérpretes más lúcidos del mundo actual.
Decidido a interrogar acontecimientos que reconfiguran el mapa de Europa, los Estados Unidos, América Latina y Oriente, Piketty considera alternativas y luchas posibles allí donde parecería que los caminos están cerrados. Así, discute en términos precisos y llanos cómo pensar el mundo del trabajo, las instituciones políticas, las reglas electorales, los sistemas sociales y fiscales, las infraestructuras públicas y educativas. Contra la idea de que determinados países deben priorizar el pago de sus deudas públicas resignando su crecimiento y su futuro con recetas de ajuste y austeridad, aconseja revisar qué sucedió en la Europa de la segunda posguerra, cuando naciones como Francia y Alemania se beneficiaron de una reconstrucción que anulaba las deudas del pasado. Rompe con la nostalgia por los “Treinta Gloriosos”, ese mundo legendario que transcurre entre mediados de los años cuarenta y los setenta del siglo XX, porque constata que el Estado de Bienestar iba acompañado por discriminaciones y desigualdades, y no se trata de un proceso históricamente cerrado.
En tiempos de conflictos vertiginosos y preocupantes, Piketty propone una lista de prioridades y convoca a construir “otra globalización”, poniendo el acento en el poder de las sociedades para decidir, inventar y organizar mejores versiones de democracia participativa.
Decidido a interrogar acontecimientos que reconfiguran el mapa de Europa, los Estados Unidos, América Latina y Oriente, Piketty considera alternativas y luchas posibles allí donde parecería que los caminos están cerrados. Así, discute en términos precisos y llanos cómo pensar el mundo del trabajo, las instituciones políticas, las reglas electorales, los sistemas sociales y fiscales, las infraestructuras públicas y educativas. Contra la idea de que determinados países deben priorizar el pago de sus deudas públicas resignando su crecimiento y su futuro con recetas de ajuste y austeridad, aconseja revisar qué sucedió en la Europa de la segunda posguerra, cuando naciones como Francia y Alemania se beneficiaron de una reconstrucción que anulaba las deudas del pasado. Rompe con la nostalgia por los “Treinta Gloriosos”, ese mundo legendario que transcurre entre mediados de los años cuarenta y los setenta del siglo XX, porque constata que el Estado de Bienestar iba acompañado por discriminaciones y desigualdades, y no se trata de un proceso históricamente cerrado.
En tiempos de conflictos vertiginosos y preocupantes, Piketty propone una lista de prioridades y convoca a construir “otra globalización”, poniendo el acento en el poder de las sociedades para decidir, inventar y organizar mejores versiones de democracia participativa.
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168 pages, Paperback
Published September 1, 2017
About the author
Thomas Piketty
94 books2,556 followersThomas Piketty (French: [tɔma pikɛti]; born May 7, 1971) is a French economist who works on wealth and income inequality. He is the director of studies at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS) and professor at the Paris School of Economics. He is the author of the best selling book Capital in the Twenty-First Century (2013), which emphasizes the themes of his work on wealth concentrations and distribution over the past 250 years. The book argues that the rate of capital return in developed countries is persistently greater than the rate of economic growth, and that this will cause wealth inequality to increase in the future. To address this problem, he proposes redistribution through a global tax on wealth.
Piketty was born on May 7, 1971, in the Parisian suburb of Clichy. He gained a C-stream (scientific) Baccalauréat, and after taking scientific preparatory classes, he entered the École Normale Supérieure (ENS) at the age of 18, where he studied mathematics and economics. At the age of 22, Piketty was awarded his Ph.D. for a thesis on wealth redistribution, which he wrote at the EHESS and the London School of Economics under Roger Guesnerie.
After earning his PhD, Piketty taught from 1993 to 1995 as an assistant professor in the Department of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In 1995, he joined the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) as a researcher, and in 2000 he became director of studies at EHESS.
Piketty won the 2002 prize for the best young economist in France, and according to a list dated November 11, 2003, he is a member of the scientific orientation board of the association "À gauche, en Europe", founded by Michel Rocard and Dominique Strauss-Kahn.
In 2006 Piketty became the first head of the Paris School of Economics, which he helped set up. He left after a few months to serve as an economic advisor to Socialist Party candidate Ségolène Royal during the French presidential campaign. Piketty resumed teaching at the Paris School of Economics in 2007.
He is a columnist for the French newspaper Libération, and occasionally writes op-eds for Le Monde.
In April 2012, Piketty co-authored along with 42 colleagues an open letter in support of then-PS candidate for the French presidency François Hollande. Hollande won the contest against the incumbent Nicolas Sarkozy in May of that year.
In 2013, Piketty won the biennial Yrjö Jahnsson Award, for the economist under age 45 who has "made a contribution in theoretical and applied research that is significant to the study of economics in Europe."
Piketty specializes in economic inequality, taking a historic and statistical approach. His work looks at the rate of capital accumulation in relation to economic growth over a two hundred year spread from the nineteenth century to the present. His novel use of tax records enabled him to gather data on the very top economic elite, who had previously been understudied, and to ascertain their rate of accumulation of wealth and how this compared to the rest of society and economy. His most recent book, Capital in the Twenty-First Century, relies on economic data going back 250 years to show that an ever-rising concentration of wealth is not self-correcting. To address this problem, he proposes redistribution through a global tax on wealth.
Piketty was born on May 7, 1971, in the Parisian suburb of Clichy. He gained a C-stream (scientific) Baccalauréat, and after taking scientific preparatory classes, he entered the École Normale Supérieure (ENS) at the age of 18, where he studied mathematics and economics. At the age of 22, Piketty was awarded his Ph.D. for a thesis on wealth redistribution, which he wrote at the EHESS and the London School of Economics under Roger Guesnerie.
After earning his PhD, Piketty taught from 1993 to 1995 as an assistant professor in the Department of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In 1995, he joined the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) as a researcher, and in 2000 he became director of studies at EHESS.
Piketty won the 2002 prize for the best young economist in France, and according to a list dated November 11, 2003, he is a member of the scientific orientation board of the association "À gauche, en Europe", founded by Michel Rocard and Dominique Strauss-Kahn.
In 2006 Piketty became the first head of the Paris School of Economics, which he helped set up. He left after a few months to serve as an economic advisor to Socialist Party candidate Ségolène Royal during the French presidential campaign. Piketty resumed teaching at the Paris School of Economics in 2007.
He is a columnist for the French newspaper Libération, and occasionally writes op-eds for Le Monde.
In April 2012, Piketty co-authored along with 42 colleagues an open letter in support of then-PS candidate for the French presidency François Hollande. Hollande won the contest against the incumbent Nicolas Sarkozy in May of that year.
In 2013, Piketty won the biennial Yrjö Jahnsson Award, for the economist under age 45 who has "made a contribution in theoretical and applied research that is significant to the study of economics in Europe."
Piketty specializes in economic inequality, taking a historic and statistical approach. His work looks at the rate of capital accumulation in relation to economic growth over a two hundred year spread from the nineteenth century to the present. His novel use of tax records enabled him to gather data on the very top economic elite, who had previously been understudied, and to ascertain their rate of accumulation of wealth and how this compared to the rest of society and economy. His most recent book, Capital in the Twenty-First Century, relies on economic data going back 250 years to show that an ever-rising concentration of wealth is not self-correcting. To address this problem, he proposes redistribution through a global tax on wealth.
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January 3, 2019
Bem livro. Faz uma coletânea de crônicas que o Piketty escreveu em jornais franceses. Gosto da visão econômica dele, um tipo de 3a via entre o socialismo e o capitalismo clássicos.
March 7, 2022
Libro molto interessante, anche per gente totalmente ignorante dell'argomento come me. Dà molti spunti di comprensione della situazione odierna del mondo (ma nello specifico dell'Unione Europea) e della economia. Gli articoli sono tutti scritti bene e parlano armonicamente dello stesso argomento, anche se a volte l'autore si ripete. Unica pecca: è molto corto, l'ho divorato in mezza giornata. Solita ottima edizione Bompiani, la carta, la stampa e la copertina sono, di qualità assoluta nel campo delle edizione economiche.
May 22, 2026
Libro de recopilaciones de columnas del 2014 al 2017 de este francés que esta de moda.
El libro es viejo (en términos de política contemporánea) quizá fue culpa mia por haber tardado en comprarmelo, pero estaba de oferta en la feria del libro y no me quedo otra.
Pifio fuerte con China, Bernie Sanders, entre otras cosas. Igualmente, destacó las ideas fiscales que tiene.
Otra cosa, lo titularon "Crónicas del mundo actual" y 3/4 del libro habla de Europa, Francia y Estados Unidos. Baiteo total.
El libro es viejo (en términos de política contemporánea) quizá fue culpa mia por haber tardado en comprarmelo, pero estaba de oferta en la feria del libro y no me quedo otra.
Pifio fuerte con China, Bernie Sanders, entre otras cosas. Igualmente, destacó las ideas fiscales que tiene.
Otra cosa, lo titularon "Crónicas del mundo actual" y 3/4 del libro habla de Europa, Francia y Estados Unidos. Baiteo total.
October 7, 2020
Lo terminé hace rato, pero me olvidé de registrarlo. Es un compendio de notas de Piketty, yo lo amo y me gustó leer sobre política europea porque en el cotidiano no lo hago mucho. Igual, un toque tiende a explicar TODO por la desigualdad, media pilaaaa.
October 11, 2021
Bastante malo. El libro es una recopilación de notas y publicaciones escritas por el sobre problemas que acontecen en Europa. Se me hizo poco interesante y la verdad no aprendí nada leyéndolo.
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