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Technical appendix of the book ÂŤ Capital in the twenty-first centuryÂť Thomas Piketty Harvard University Press - March 2014 http://piketty.pse.ens.fr/capital21c
In order to ease the reading of the book “Capital in the twenty-first century" and not to overwhelm the reader with footnotes, I have decided to include in this technical appendix the detailed presentation of historical sources, bibliographic references, statistical methods and mathematical models used in the book, including the presentation of the statistical series used in order to construct the figures and the tables presented in the different chapters. 1 This appendix also includes additional figures and tables that are mentioned in the book (although not incorporated in it, so as to limit its volume), as well as Internet links to all the series, excel files, programs, formulas, primary sources and technical studies used as bedrock of this book.
Version available on line on February 1st 2014 The page numbers referred to in this appendix relate to the edition of the book "Capital in the 21st century" published by Harvard University Press in March 2014.
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This technical appendix (as well as all figures, tables and data files) was translated from French into English by Pierre Bertrand. I am most grateful to Pierre for his excellent work.