Anti-Piketty: Capital for the 21st-Century

Thomas Piketty's book Capital in the Twenty-First Century has enjoyed great success, both among academics and the general public. Its influence on politics also cannot be denied. His book provided something people had waited for - a new scientific theory about wealth and inequality. However, there were . Anti-Piketty: Capital for the 21st Century collects those essential criticisms from twenty specialists--economists, historians and tax experts--who provide scientific and rigorous arguments against Piketty's central theses. These researchers, who come from many countries and many backgrounds, examine the notions of inequality, growth, wealth and capital that Piketty treated in his book. They show in new ways how inequality did not explode, the rich are not rentiers but rather entrepreneurs who take risks and create millions of jobs, that wealth can not indefinitely grow faster than economic growth, and that radical taxation does not solve problems but aggravates them.

About the Author
Emmanuel Martin is the director of the Institute for Economic Studies-Europe, an educational think tank based in Paris. He holds a PhD in economics from the University of Aix-en-Provence in France. Dr Martin has moderated and lectured in seminars for the Institute for Economic Studies, the Friedrich Naumann Stiftung, and the Atlas Network in various countries, and he has been widely published on various topics from French politics and economics to African issues in various newspapers and magazines across the globe.
Jean-Philippe Delsol is a tax lawyer, doctor of law, and president of the Institute for Research in Economic and Fiscal Issues (IREF). He regularly publishes articles in the French economic press. He is the author of Pourquoi Je Vais Quitter la France (Tatamis, 2013) and, with Nicolas Lecaussin, À Quoi Servent les Riches (JC Lattès, 2012, "What's the Use of the Rich").

Nicolas Lecaussin is director of the Institute for Research in Economic and Fiscal Issues (IREF), a graduate of the Paris Institute of Political Studies (Sciences Po), founder of Entrepreneur Junior, and author of multiple books.