Afraid Quote by Thomas Piketty

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

“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

Indeed, the distribution of wealth is too important an issue to be left to economists, sociologists, historians, and philosophers.

— Thomas Piketty

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

“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

“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

“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

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

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

Without precisely defined sources, methods, and concepts, it is possible to see absolutely everything and its opposite.

— Thomas Piketty

“the population of the world grew at an average annual rate of barely 0.8 percent between 1700 and 2012.”

— Thomas Piketty

I'm not as pessimistic as what a number of people seem to believe.

— Thomas Piketty