Top Incomes in France in the Twentieth Century: Inequality and Redistribution, 1901–1998

基本信息

Format：Hardback | 1280 pages

Dimensions：162 x 235 x 63.5mm | 1,905.09g

Publication date：07 May 2018

Publisher：HARVARD UNIVERSITY PRESS

Imprint：The Belknap Press

Publication City/Country：Cambridge, Mass., United States

Language：English

ISBN10：0674737695

ISBN13：9780674737693

书籍简介

这本由托马斯·皮凯蒂撰写的开创性著作是当代社会科学的里程碑，它解释了20世纪法国收入不平等的事实和动态。这本书在2001年以法语出版后，帮助启动了一个由皮凯蒂等人牵头的国际项目，该项目旨在探索全球不平等的大模式和原因。自那以后，这项研究改变了公众辩论。这是第一次以英语版本出版，这一惊人的成就将与《21世纪资本论》并举，成为经济分析的现代经典。

20世纪法国的高收入人群至关重要，这在一定程度上是因为皮凯蒂做出了从未有过的努力，以清晰的形式揭示、梳理和呈现1900年以来法国税收和遗产模式的数据。但它也是一部杰出的作品，用皮凯蒂特有的清晰散文分析、追踪和解释了政治冲突、战争和社会变革对经济压力和公共政策的影响，这些影响决定了数百万人的生活。工作不寻常的知识权力和野心，高收入在20世纪在法国是一种至关重要的资源。对于任何关心法国经济、政治、和社会历史的人来说,这是正在进行的关于社会公正的争论的核心,不平等,税收,和全球资本主义的演变。

A landmark in contemporary social science, this pioneering work by Thomas Piketty explains the facts and dynamics of income inequality in France in the twentieth century. On its publication in French in 2001, it helped launch the international program led by Piketty and others to explore the grand patterns and causes of global inequality-research that has since transformed public debate. Appearing here in English for the first time, this stunning achievement will take its place alongside Capital in the Twenty-First Century as a modern classic of economic analysis.

Top Incomes in France in the Twentieth Century is essential in part because of Piketty's unprecedented efforts to uncover, untangle, and present in clear form data about patterns in tax and inheritance in France dating back to 1900. But it is also an exceptional work of analysis, tracking and explaining with Piketty's characteristically lucid prose the effects of political conflict, war, and social change on the economic pressures and public policies that determined the lives of millions. A work of unusual intellectual power and ambition, Top Incomes in France in the Twentieth Century is a vital resource for anyone concerned with the economic, political, and social history of France, and it is central to ongoing debates about social justice, inequality, taxation, and the evolution of capitalism around the world.

作者简介

托马斯·皮凯蒂，法国社会科学高等研究院研究主任，巴黎经济学院教授，《二十一世纪资本论》的作者。

Thomas Piketty is Director of Studies at L'École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales and Professor at the Paris School of Economics. He is the author of Capital in the Twenty-First Century.

目录

Preface

Introduction: Why Study Top Incomes?

1. A Five-Fold Increase in "Average" Purchasing Power in the Twentieth Century

2. The Evolution of the Level and Composition of Top Incomes in France in the Twentieth Century

3. Wage Inequality in France in the Twentieth Century

4. Income-Tax Legislation from 1914 to 1998

5. Who Paid What?

6. Was the "End of the Rentiers" a Tax Illusion?

7. How Does France Compare with Foreign Experiences?

Conclusion: Top Incomes in France at the Dawn of the Twenty-First Century

Appendix A: The Raw Statistical Tables Compiled by the Tax Administration from Tax Returns (1915-1998 Tax Years)

Appendix B: Methodology and Results of Estimates Based on Income-Tax Return Statistics (1915-1998 Tax Years)

Appendix C: Complementary Data on Income-Tax Legislation

Appendix D: Raw Data, Methodology, and Results of Estimates Based on Statistics from Employer Wage Declarations (1919-1938, 1947, and 1950-1998 Wages)

Appendix E: Estimating Consistent Series for the Blue-Collar Wage and the Average Wage Over the Long Run (1900-1998)

Appendix F: Consumption Price Indexes (1900-1998)

Appendix G: Methodology and Results of the Estimates Based on the National Accounts Series (1900-1998)

Appendix H: Population, Households, and Socioprofessional Structure, 1900-1998

Appendix I: Estimates of the Income Distribution in Twentieth-Century France

Appendix J: Raw Data, Methodology, and Results of Estimates Based on the Statistics Derived from Bequest Declarations (1902-1994 Bequests)

Appendix K: Raw Data, Methodology, and Estimates Based on Statistics on the Distribution of Parisian Rents (1889, 1901, and 1911 Rents)

Notes

Contents in Detail

List of Tables and Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Index