Extremes Quote by Thomas Piketty Download Open image “When inequality gets to an extreme, it is completely useless for growth.” — Thomas Piketty ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.6 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Extremes Growth Inequality Useless
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 Copy Share Image
You need some inequality to grow... but extreme inequality is not only useless but can be harmful to growth because it reduces mobility and… — Thomas Piketty Copy Share Image
“Incentives aren't the only thing that matter for economic growth. Opportunity is also crucial, and extreme inequality deprives many people of the opportunity to… — Paul Krugman Copy Share Image
Inequality is a terrible waste of time, a waste of people's resources. — Jeremy Corbyn Copy Share Image
The benefits of growth have not trickled down. Income inequalities have become one of the biggest global challenges, attracting growing attention not only in… — Jose Angel Gurria Copy Share Image
I think inequality has gone past the point where it's helping us all get rich, and it's really becoming a serious threat. — Angus Deaton Copy Share Image
Growth is limited by that necessity which is present in the least amount. — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
Inequality is an enormously complicated thing that is both good and bad. — Angus Deaton Copy Share Image
Growth is a substitute for equality of income. So long as there is growth there is hope, and that makes large income differentials tolerable. — Henry Wallich Copy Share Image
People have been convinced that growth for growth's sake is a good thing. — Tom Scholz 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
It must be assumed and established as a principle, that the right of private property must be regarded as sacred. Wherefore, the law ought… — Pope Leo XIII Copy Share Image
While the people retain their virtue and vigilance, no administration, by any extreme of wickedness or folly, can very seriously injure the government in… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
The concept of humanity is an especially useful ideological instrument of imperialist expansion, and in its ethical-humanitarian form it is a specific vehicle of… — Carl Schmitt Copy Share Image
One should try to locate power at the extreme of its exercise, where it is always less legal in character. — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
It's fine to talk about politics with people you agree with. But it is rude to argue about politics with people you disagree with.… — Lawrence Lessig Copy Share Image
Either dragons should exist completely or fail to exist at all, he felt. A dragon only half-existing was worse than the extremes. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Playing for complications is an extreme measure that a player should adopt only when he cannot find a clear and logical plan. — Alexander Alekhine Copy Share Image
I strongly reject any conceptual scheme that places our options on a line, and holds that the only alternative to a pair of extreme… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
I like to push characters to extremes so they have to make really tough decisions and there is no life more extreme than that… — Chris Cleave Copy Share Image
An excessive preponderance of an idealistic mood is harmful to society: it creates daydreaming, political Don Quixotism, hope for heavenly intervention. This is an… — Henryk Sienkiewicz Copy Share Image
I think that for thousands of years people have made the observation that there are certain kinds of extreme depressive states that seem to… — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
