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  2. Capital in the Twenty-First Century - Wikipedia

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    696. ISBN. 978-0674430006. Capital in the Twenty-First Century (French: Le Capital au XXIe siècle) is a book written by French economist Thomas Piketty. It focuses on wealth and income inequality in Europe and the United States since the 18th century. It was first published in French (as Le Capital au XXIe siècle) in August 2013; an English ...

  3. Capital accumulation - Wikipedia

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    Capital accumulation is the dynamic that motivates the pursuit of profit, involving the investment of money or any financial asset with the goal of increasing the initial monetary value of said asset as a financial return whether in the form of profit, rent, interest, royalties or capital gains. The aim of capital accumulation is to create new ...

  4. The Elephant Curve - Wikipedia

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    The Elephant Curve. The Elephant Curve, also known as the Lakner-Milanovic graph or the global growth incidence curve, is a graph that illustrates the unequal distribution of income growth for individuals belonging to different income groups. [1] The original graph was published in 2013 and illustrates the change in income growth that occurred ...

  5. Capitalist mode of production (Marxist theory) - Wikipedia

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    t. e. In Karl Marx 's critique of political economy and subsequent Marxian analyses, the capitalist mode of production (German: Produktionsweise) refers to the systems of organizing production and distribution within capitalist societies. Private money-making in various forms (renting, banking, merchant trade, production for profit and so on ...

  6. List of countries by GNI (nominal) per capita - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of countries by gross national income per capita in 2023 at nominal values, according to the Atlas method, an indicator of income developed by the World Bank. [1] Countries by nominal GNI per capita according to the Atlas method (2018)

  7. Economic growth - Wikipedia

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    t. e. Economic growth can be defined as the increase or improvement in the inflation-adjusted market value of the goods and services produced by an economy in a financial year. [ 1 ] Statisticians conventionally measure such growth as the percent rate of increase in the real and nominal gross domestic product (GDP).

  8. Middle income trap - Wikipedia

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    e. In development economics, the middle income trap is a situation where a country has developed until GDP per capita has reached a middle level of income, but the country does not develop further and it does not attain high income country status. [1] The term was introduced by the World Bank in 2007 who defined it as the 'middle-income range ...

  9. Macroeconomics - Wikipedia

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    Macroeconomics. Production and national income: Macroeconomics takes a big-picture view of the entire economy, including examining the roles of, and relationships between, firms, households and governments, and the different types of markets, such as the financial market and the labour market. Macroeconomics is a branch of economics that deals ...