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En ese campo de batallahan convergido ideas sobre la igualdad entre los ciudadanos, el derecho de laspersonas a ser retribuidas conforme a sus m\u00e9ritos, la confianza en que elcrecimiento econ\u00f3mico mitiga de manera natural los contrastes entre los m\u00e1sfavorecidos y los francamente abandonados, pero la informaci\u00f3n concreta,referida a un plazo largo y a diversas geograf\u00edas, no se hab\u00eda empleado consuficiente rigor para entender c\u00f3mo se acumula el patrimonio, qu\u00e9 consecuenciassociales tiene ese proceso y qu\u00e9 pueden hacer los Estados para enfrentarlo.El lector encontrar\u00e1 en estas p\u00e1ginas un muy detallado an\u00e1lisis de c\u00f3mo se handistribuido el ingreso y la riqueza en el mundo, desde el siglo XVIII y hastanuestros d\u00edas. A partir de una rica base de datos econ\u00f3micos de una veintena depa\u00edses \u2014disponible en l\u00ednea para quien quiera profundizar en tal o cual asunto\u2014y con certeras pinceladas literarias \u2014Balzac y Austen sirven para dar ejemplosde c\u00f3mo las sociedades han entendido su relaci\u00f3n con el dinero\u2014, Piketty haceun minucioso recorrido hist\u00f3rico y estad\u00edstico para identificar ciertos patronesen el proceso de acumulaci\u00f3n del patrimonio en las principales econom\u00edas. Parael investigador de la \u00c9cole de Economie de Paris, cada naci\u00f3n ha respondido demanera diferente a una ley b\u00e1sica del capitalismo, seg\u00fan la cual el rendimientodel capital suele ser superior, a veces por mucho, a la tasa de crecimiento dela econom\u00eda, lo que puede estimular la concentraci\u00f3n de la riqueza y agravar lainequidad; queda a los Estados decidir, individual o colectivamente, c\u00f3mo influiren esa fuerza polarizante.El capital en el siglo XXI ha despertado animadas pol\u00e9micas en pr\u00e1cticamente todo el orbe, en partepor reintroducir entre acad\u00e9micos, pol\u00edticos, comentaristas y p\u00fablico engeneral la preocupaci\u00f3n sobre las desigualdades sociales; en parte por supropuesta de establecer pol\u00edticas fiscales de alcance global que moderen ladisparidad \u2014 impuestos a la riqueza y a la herencia\u2014; en parte por su visi\u00f3namplia de lo que deben ser hoy las ciencias sociales, y en parte porque ofreceargumentos s\u00f3lidos, frescos, para que gobiernos y sociedades combatan de manerafrontal el flagelo de la desigualdad.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thomas Piketty<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}}},"product_brand":[23],"product_cat":[5808,5807,5806,14995],"product_tag":[5823],"class_list":["post-29967","product","type-product","status-publish","product_brand-epub-paradise","product_cat-ebooks","product_cat-epub","product_cat-espanol","product_cat-thomas-piketty","product_tag-otros","desktop-align-center","tablet-align-left","mobile-align-center","first","instock","taxable","shipping-taxable","purchasable","product-type-variable"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.8 - 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