Century Quote by Robert Gilpin

Wealth inequality has increased.

— Cornel West

Wealth has more and more increased, and at the same time gathered itself more and more into masses, strangely altering the old relations, and…

— Thomas Carlyle

Globalization in the aggregate generates wealth, no question. But it gets concentrated.

— Tim Ryan

The past few decades of widening inequality can be summed up as significant income and wealth gains for those at the very top and…

— Janet Yellen

It's not enough to have economic growth. You have to distribute wealth throughout all of society.

— Tabare Vazquez

There is very strong historical data that suggests the way societies grow is by making large, long-term investments.

— Fareed Zakaria

There is very strong historical data that suggest the way societies grow is by making large, long-term investments.

— Fareed Zakaria

The concentration of U.S. income and wealth in the hands of the very rich is a new development in my lifetime.

— Paul Craig Roberts

“The most recent estimate is that a mere 400 individuals in the United States now own more wealth than the bottom 180 million Americans…

— Gar Alperovitz

“Ideally, earning full-on wealth, not just cash, will become more like what spending is like already. There will be a multitude of incremental wealth…

— Jaron Lanier

The long-run historical tendency of capitalism has not only been to increase real incomes more or less proportionately nearly all along the line, but…

— Henry Hazlitt

Either wealth is much increased, or moderation is much decayed.

— George Herbert