Indeed, the distribution of wealth is too important an issue to be left to economists, sociologists, historians, and philosophers. — Thomas Piketty Copy Share Image
“The sharp reduction in income inequality that we observe in almost all the rich countries between 1914 and 1945 was due above… — Thomas Piketty Copy Share Image
“The second conclusion, which is the heart of the book, is that the dynamics of wealth distribution reveal powerful mechanisms pushing alternately… — Thomas Piketty Copy Share Image
“When the rate of return on capital significantly exceeds the growth rate of the economy (as it did through much of history… — Thomas Piketty Copy Share Image
One way to have broader access to wealth is to reduce the tax on the large group and increase the tax on… — Thomas Piketty Copy Share Image
“for example, the wealthy planter Quentin Tarantino portrays in Django Unchained is prepared to sell beautiful Broomhilda for only $700 but wants… — Thomas Piketty Copy Share Image
Having a decent share of the national wealth for the middle class is not bad for growth. It is actually useful both… — Thomas Piketty Copy Share Image
No hypocrisy is too great when economic and financial elites are obliged to defend their interest. — Thomas Piketty Copy Share Image
We know too little about global wealth dynamics, so we need international transmission of bank information. — Thomas Piketty Copy Share Image
Capitalism and market forces are very powerful in producing wealth and innovation. But we need to ensure that these forces act in… — Thomas Piketty Copy Share Image
It's important to realize that innovation and growth in itself are not sufficient to moderate inequality of wealth. — Thomas Piketty Copy Share Image
It's not Utopian to believe that we can create a global registry of financial assets so we know who owns what in different countries. — Thomas Piketty Copy Share Image
“US inequality in 2010 is quantitatively as extreme as in old Europe in the first decade of the twentieth century, but the structure of… — Thomas Piketty Copy Share Image
Indeed, the distribution of wealth is too important an issue to be left to economists, sociologists, historians, and philosophers. — Thomas Piketty Copy Share Image
The United States could transform its property tax system into a progressive tax on net worth without asking permission to the rest of the… — Thomas Piketty Copy Share Image
“When it comes to decreasing inequalities of wealth for good or reducing unusually high levels of public debt, a progressive tax on capital is… — Thomas Piketty Copy Share Image
“In other words, low growth cannot adequately counterbalance the Marxist principle of infinite accumulation: the resulting equilibrium is not as apocalyptic as the one… — Thomas Piketty Copy Share Image
“I belong to a generation that came of age listening to news of the collapse of the Communist dicatorships and never felt the slightest… — Thomas Piketty Copy Share Image
When you are an entrepreneur, you have founded your own firm, it is so easy to find that you exist - you are the… — Thomas Piketty Copy Share Image
There is one great advantage to being an academic economist in France: here, economists are not highly respected in the academic and intellectual world… — Thomas Piketty Copy Share Image
Without precisely defined sources, methods, and concepts, it is possible to see absolutely everything and its opposite. — Thomas Piketty Copy Share Image
“the population of the world grew at an average annual rate of barely 0.8 percent between 1700 and 2012.” — Thomas Piketty Copy Share Image
