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...the discipline of economics has yet to get over its childish passion for mathematics and for purely theoretical and often highly ideological…
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For far too long economists have sought to define themselves in terms of their supposedly scientific methods. In fact, those methods rely…
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Over a long period of time, the main force in favor of greater equality has been the diffusion of knowledge and skills.
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When the rate of return on capital exceeds the rate of growth of output and income, as it did in the nineteenth…
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What was the good of industrial development, what was the good of all the technological innovations, toil, and population movements if, after…
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Democracy will never be supplanted by a republic of experts—and that is a very good thing.
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Contrary to a tenacious myth, France is not owned by California pension funds or the Bank of China, any more than the…
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There is one great advantage to being an academic economist in France: here, economists are not highly respected in the academic and…
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Indeed, the distribution of wealth is too important an issue to be left to economists, sociologists, historians, and philosophers.
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I loved American universities. In many ways, they are better organized - certainly than French universities.
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Capitalism and market forces are very powerful in producing wealth and innovation. But we need to ensure that these forces act in…
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We want capitalism and market forces to be the slave of democracy rather than the opposite.
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