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Worldview Matters

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  • Maarten de Kadt

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Comparing Piketty’s inequality generating mechanism (r>g) to Marx’s circuits of capital underscores a central difference: Marx wanted to replace capitalism while Piketty merely wants to fix it by taxing the rich. Piketty’s discussion of slavery reifies human chattel’s role in economic history. The failure to exclude the income of supermanagers as a return to labor may lead to an understatement of the inequality Piketty describes. Similarly, a brief mention of the environment without analysis of the wealth obtained from its abuse also understates the growth of inequality. JEL classification: D31, O15, P1, P3, Q51

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  • Maarten de Kadt, 2017. "Worldview Matters," Review of Radical Political Economics, Union for Radical Political Economics, vol. 49(3), pages 489-494, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:reorpe:v:49:y:2017:i:3:p:489-494
    DOI: 10.1177/0486613415623254
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    1. Clemens Fuest & Andreas Peichl & Daniel Waldenström, 2015. "Piketty’s r-g Model: Wealth Inequality and Tax Policy," CESifo Forum, ifo Institute - Leibniz Institute for Economic Research at the University of Munich, vol. 16(01), pages 03-10, May.
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    Keywords

    inequality; slavery; economic models; crisis; growth; capital; supermanagers; environment; income; wealth;
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    JEL classification:

    • D31 - Microeconomics - - Distribution - - - Personal Income and Wealth Distribution
    • O15 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Economic Development: Human Resources; Human Development; Income Distribution; Migration
    • P1 - Political Economy and Comparative Economic Systems - - Capitalist Economies
    • P3 - Political Economy and Comparative Economic Systems - - Socialist Institutions and Their Transitions
    • Q51 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Environmental Economics - - - Valuation of Environmental Effects

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