在他现已闻名天下的公式中，如果资本回报高于经济增长率，继承财富将以比公司收入更快的速度增长，资本所有者占国民产出的比例将不断增加。
In his now-famous formulation, if the rate of return on capital is greater than the rate of growth of the economy, inherited wealth will grow more quickly than wage income, and the owners of capital will receive an increasing share of national output.