Quote by Thomas Piketty Download Open image ““We must also consider inequality within and not just between countries. I”” — Thomas Piketty ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.4 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“Borders are the single biggest cause of discrimination in all of world history. Inequality gaps between people living in the same country are nothing… — Rutger Bregman Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“Inequality? The countries with the biggest disparities in wealth are precisely those with the longest workweeks.” — Rutger Bregman Copy Share Image
“Inequality and poverty, unhealth and no wealth are hand in hand. And if we are all born equal that should be true in all… — Ana Claudia Antunes Copy Share Image
“Borders are the single biggest cause of discrimination in all of world history. Inequality gaps between people living in the same country are nothing… — Rutger Bregman Copy Share Image
Regardless of how you interpret the facts, you have to come to the conclusion that inequality is widening in the US and in almost… — Robert Reich Copy Share Image
“Inequality is not necessarily bad in itself: the key question is to decide whether it is justified, whether there are reasons for it.” — Thomas Piketty Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
Indeed, the distribution of wealth is too important an issue to be left to economists, sociologists, historians, and philosophers. — Thomas Piketty Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Without precisely defined sources, methods, and concepts, it is possible to see absolutely everything and its opposite. — Thomas Piketty Copy Share Image
“the population of the world grew at an average annual rate of barely 0.8 percent between 1700 and 2012.” — Thomas Piketty Copy Share Image
