“All around us we see a level of individual wealth unequaled since the early years of the 20th century.” — Tony Judt Copy Share Image
As recently as the 1970s, the idea that the point of life was to get rich and that governments existed to facilitate… — Tony Judt Copy Share Image
We need to start talking about inequality again; we need to start talking about the inequities and unfairnesses and the injustices of… — Tony Judt Copy Share Image
“More than anything else, the welfare states of the mid-20th century established the profound indecency of defining civic status as a function… — Tony Judt Copy Share Image
How should we begin to make amends for raising a generation obsessed with the pursuit of material wealth and indifferent to so… — Tony Judt Copy Share Image
For Europe to play a part in the world on the scale of its wealth and its population and its capacities, Europe… — Tony Judt Copy Share Image
“financial transactions have displaced the production of goods or services as the source of private fortunes, distorting the value we place upon… — Tony Judt Copy Share Image
Contrast 1968, when the CEO of General Motors took home, in pay and benefits, about sixty-six times the amount paid to a… — Tony Judt Copy Share Image
“As recently as the 1970s, the idea that the point of life was to get rich and that governments existed to facilitate… — Tony Judt Copy Share Image
I don't believe in an afterlife. I don't believe in a single or multiple godhead. I respect people who do, but I don't believe… — Tony Judt Copy Share
“Markets do not automatically generate trust, cooperation or collective action for the common good. Quite the contrary: it is in the nature of economic… — Tony Judt Copy Share
“ Lieux de memoire . . . 'exist because there are no longer any milieux de memoire , settings in which memory is a… — Tony Judt Copy Share
“Keynes died in 1946, exhausted by his wartime efforts. But he had long since demonstrated that neither capitalism nor liberalism would survive very long… — Tony Judt Copy Share
The Second World War had a precipitating effect in that it discredited the empires, as well as bankrupting them. Not only could you no… — Tony Judt Copy Share
“That the state might exceed its remit and damage the market by distorting its operations was not taken very seriously in these years.” — Tony Judt Copy Share
“Whatever their other differences, French Gaullists, Christian Democrats and Socialists shared a common faith in the activist state, economic planning and large-scale public investment.… — Tony Judt Copy Share
I think if I'm controversial it's not because I set out to be. It's because I've never felt comfortable being part of someone else's… — Tony Judt Copy Share
“This reduction of 'society' to a thin membrane of interactions between private individuals is presented today as the ambition of libertarians and free marketeers.… — Tony Judt Copy Share
“Something is profoundly wrong with the way we live today. For thirty years we have made a virtue out of the pursuit of material… — Tony Judt Copy Share
We have responsibilities for others, not just across space but across time. We have responsibilities to people who came before us. They left us… — Tony Judt Copy Share
“What did trust, cooperation, progressive taxation and the interventionist state bequeath to western societies in the decades following 1945? The short answer is, in… — Tony Judt Copy Share
Healthcare reform is a paradigmatic case. It is self-evidently necessary and inevitable and has been on the agenda for 35 years, and the political… — Tony Judt Copy Share
