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The key to understanding the rise in inequality isn't technology or globalization. It's the power of the moneyed interests to shape the underlying rules…

— Robert Reich

The concern that I have is that, as wealth continues to concentrate in the hands of a few, economic inequality grows, and power also…

— Jane Mayer

“The three topics of this book - technological change, education, and inequality - are intricately related in a kind of 'race.' During the first…

— Claudia Goldin

I see three forces militating in favor of growing inequality: increasing measurement of worker value added, automation through smart software, and globalization.

— Tyler Cowen

We work harder and we earn less. Income inequality is at the highest point in over a century. While American capitalism never guaranteed success,…

— Mario Cuomo

“Inequality in the modern world largely results from the uneven dissemination and adoption of technologies,”

— Daron Acemoğlu

Economic inequality is a corrosive force that undermines economic growth, puts a brake on the fight against poverty, and sparks social unrest.

— Winnie Byanyima

There are dangers that globalization increases inequality. There are dangers that because capital is mobile and workers are not, if we are not providing…

— Barack Obama

“The idea was that inequalities increase in the early phases of industrialization, because only a minority is prepared to benefit from the new wealth…

— Thomas Piketty

Many of the technologies that are now racing ahead most rapidly, replacing human workers in factories and offices with machines, making stockholders richer and…

— Freeman Dyson

“inequality is associated with more frequent and more severe boom-and-bust cycles that make our economy more volatile and vulnerable.”

— David Cay Johnston

When inequality gets too extreme, then it becomes useless for growth, and it can even become bad because it tends to lead to high…

— Thomas Piketty