“Piketty’s Capital in the Twenty-First Century is an intellectual tour de force, a triumph of economic history over the theoretical, mathematical modeling that has come to dominate the economics profession in recent years.”

— Steven Pearlstein, Washington Post

“It seems safe to say that Capital 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

“Stands a fair chance of becoming the 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, The Nation

“A sweeping account of rising inequality...Piketty has written a book that nobody interested in a defining issue of our era can afford to ignore.”

— John Cassidy, New Yorker

“Piketty has written an extraordinarily important book...In its scale and sweep it brings us back to the founders of political economy.”

— Martin Wolf, Financial 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