ANew York Times#1 BestsellerAn Amazon #1 BestsellerAWall Street Journal#1 BestsellerAUSA TodayBestsellerASunday TimesBestsellerAGuardianBest Book of the 21st CenturyWinner 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 of 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 book 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 triumph of economic history over the theoretical,...