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

書籍簡介

這本由托馬斯·皮凱蒂撰寫的開創性著作是當代社會科學的里程碑，它解釋了20世紀法國收入不平等的事實和動態。這本書在2001年以法語出版後，幫助啟動了一個由皮凱蒂等人牽頭的國際項目，該項目旨在探索全球不平等的大模式和原因。自那以後，這項研究改變了公眾辯論。這是第一次以英語版本出版，這一驚人的成就將與《21世紀資本論》並舉，成為經濟分析的現代經典。

20世紀法國的高收入人羣至關重要，這在一定程度上是因為皮凱蒂做出了從未有過的努力，以清晰的形式揭示、梳理和呈現1900年以來法國税收和遺產模式的數據。但它也是一部傑出的作品，用皮凱蒂特有的清晰散文分析、追蹤和解釋了政治衝突、戰爭和社會變革對經濟壓力和公共政策的影響，這些影響決定了數百萬人的生活。工作不尋常的知識權力和野心，高收入在20世紀在法國是一種至關重要的資源。對於任何關心法國經濟、政治、和社會歷史的人來説,這是正在進行的關於社會公正的爭論的核心,不平等,税收,和全球資本主義的演變。

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.

作者簡介

托馬斯·皮凱蒂，法國社會科學高等研究院研究主任，巴黎經濟學院教授，《二十一世紀資本論》的作者。

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

目錄

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