Structuralist Response to Piketty's Capital in the Twenty-First Century

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New School Economist Lance Taylor released a symposium of literature on Thomas Piketty’s Capital in the Twenty-First Century in conjunction with the INET-sponsored research project on Economic Sustainability, Distribution and Stability.

It includes papers offering a structuralist response to Piketty's explanation of inequality and advancing alternative theories.

1. Thomas Piketty’s Capital in the Twenty-First Century: Introduction to a Structuralist Symposium
   Lance Taylor (The New School)

2. Capitalism, Inequality and Globalization: Thomas Piketty’s Capital in the Twenty-First Century
   Prabhat Patnaik (Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi)

3. Elasticity of substitution and social conflict: a structuralist note on Piketty’s Capital in the 21st Century
   Nelson Barbosa-Filho (São Paulo School of Economics)

4. Piketty’s Elasticity of Substitution: A Critique
   Gregor Semieniuk (The New School)

5. The Triumph of the Rentier? Thomas Piketty vs. Luigi Pasinetti and John Maynard Keynes