ANew York Times#1 BestsellerAn Amazon #1 BestsellerAWall Street Journa l#1 BestsellerAUSA TodayBestsellerASunday TimesBestsellerWinner of theFinancial Timesand McKinsey Business Book of the Year AwardWinner of the British Academy MedalFinalist, National Book Critics Circle Award?It seems safe to say thatCapital 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 ?sCapital in the Twenty-First Centuryis 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