【摘要】 《21世纪资本论》指出,贫富差距主要来自资本收入不平等,不同社会阶层的收入结构和财富结构相差悬殊。在发达国家,收入最高的10%的人拥有全社会财富的60%,而其中收入最高的1%占有全社会财富的35%。要解决贫富差距,应该对资本征收累进税。通过征税改变规则、提高金融数据的透明度、防范金融危机、巩固民主社会。该书引起巨大反响,有褒有贬。该书忽视储蓄率而仅由r>g就得出资本集中、不平等加剧的结论不能令人十分信服;混淆资本和财富的概念,也令人对资本收入在国民收入占比会随资本/GDP比重的提高而提高的推断存有疑虑。该书强调必须综合经济学、政治学、历史学、社会学等各学科来研究收入分配问题;从数据、从宏观变量的关系入手或许会为宏观经济学的研究开出一条新路。该书虽未深入讨黻展中国家的收入不平等问题,但也提醒中国必须正视收入不平等问题的挑战。更多还原

【Abstract】 The book points out that the main source of wealth gap is the inequality in returns on capital and the diverse income and wealth structures of different social strata.In the developed countries,the top 10 percent rich people own 60 percent of total social wealth while the top 1percent rich people account for 35 percent of social wealth.To fill the wealth gap,the progressive income tax should be levied,the taxation rules should be changed and the transparency of financial data should be improved so as to prevent financial crisis and solidify the democratic society.The book has stirred great repercussions and incurred both applauses and criticism.It has included financial assets and value of properties into GDP,which actually overestimates the proportion of capital to income and mixes the concepts of capital and wealth.It also casts into doubt the conclusion that the proportion of capital to income rises with the capital-GDP ratio.The book stresses that multiple disciplines,such as politics,history and sociology,should be combined in the study of income distribution.By tackling the issue through data and relations among macroeconomic variables,the book may blaze a new trail in the study of macroeconomics.Meanwhile,although it does not discuss the issue of income inequality in the developing countries(including China),it reminds China of the necessity to seriously tackle the challenge of income inequality.更多还原