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Thomas Piketty, Capital in the Twenty-First Century

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Piketty Thomas, Capital in the Twenty-First Century (translated by Goldhammer Arthur). Cambridge, MA and London: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2014; viii + 685 pp.: 9780674430006. RRP $77.00.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2023

GC Harcourt*
Affiliation:
UNSW Australia, Australia

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