A New York Times #1 Bestseller An Amazon #1 Bestseller A Wall Street Journa l #1 Bestseller A USA Today Bestseller A Sunday Times Bestseller Winner of the Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award Winner of the British Academy Medal Finalist, National Book Critics Circle Award “It seems safe to say that Capital in the Twenty-First Century , the magnum opus o f the French economist Thomas Piketty, will be the most important economics book of the year—and maybe of the decade.” —Paul Krugman, New York Times “The b ook aims to revolutionize the way people think about the economic history of the past two centuries. It may well manage the feat.” — The Economist “Piketty ’s Capital in the Twenty-First Century is an intellectual tour de force, a tri umph of economic history over the theoretical, mathematical modeling that has co me to dominate the economics profession in recent years.” —Steven Pearlstein, Washington Post “Piketty has written an extraordinarily important book…In its scale and sweep it brings us back to the founders of political economy.” —Mart in Wolf, Financial Times “A sweeping account of rising inequality…Piketty ha s written a book that nobody interested in a defining issue of our era can affor d to ignore.” —John Cassidy, New Yorker “Stands a fair chance of becoming t he most influential work of economics yet published in our young century. It is the most important study of inequality in over fifty years.” —Timothy Shenk, T he Nation