Economist Quote by George Packer

“What determines inequality among individuals within a single nation? Are there certain regularities that make inequality behave in a particular way as societies develop?”

— Branko Milanović

For my own part, I believe that there is social and psychological justification for significant inequalities of incomes and wealth.

— John Maynard Keynes

High levels of inequality generate high costs for society, dampening social mobility, undermining the labour market prospects of vulnerable social groups, and creating social…

— Jose Angel Gurria

“The sharp reduction in income inequality that we observe in almost all the rich countries between 1914 and 1945 was due above all to…

— Thomas Piketty

“For instance, in Sweden, Finland, and Germany, income inequality has actually grown more quickly over the past twenty to thirty years than in the…

— Erik Brynjolfsson

Economic mobility will fix income inequality.

— Joe Sestak

We live in a world where economic positions - income and wealth - are very unevenly distributed, and this leads to the widespread persistence…

— Thomas Pogge

“The wider the spread between the wealthy few and the impoverished many, the worse the social problems: a statement which appears to be true…

— Tony Judt

“History tells us that inequality soars when societies develop.”

— Edward Luce

“Indeed, the instability of families’ incomes has risen faster than the inequality of families’ incomes.”

— Jonathan Morduch

In the United States today we have the most unequal wealth and income distribution of any major country on earth - worse than at…

— Bernie Sanders

“Income inequality,” say two leading scientists who have studied twenty-four developed countries, “makes us all less happy with our lives, even if we’re relatively…

— Rutger Bregman