Politics Quote by Tony Judt

“What did trust, cooperation, progressive taxation and the interventionist state bequeath to western societies in the decades following 1945? The short answer is, in…

— Tony Judt

“The institutional dynamics we have described ultimately determined which countries took advantage of the major opportunities present in the nineteenth century onward and which…

— Daron Acemoğlu

“And after generations of redistributive progressive income and inheritance taxes, the economic elite was losing its lead. Income in America during the mid-1970s was…

— Jane Mayer

“The wider the spread between the wealthy few and the impoverished many, the worse the social problems: a statement which appears to be true…

— Tony Judt

“History tells us that inequality soars when societies develop.”

— Edward Luce

Capitalism in the 19th century did not doom the worker to a life of perpetual poverty. Instead, they kept creating new and better-paying employments…

— Richard Ebeling

“The West’s median income, meanwhile, has barely shifted in the last half-century.”

— Edward Luce

When you have an economically unequal society, you end up with huge swaths of society that are disposable, basically.

— Trevor Paglen

“If it once became general, wealth would confer no distraction. It was possible no doubt to imagine a society in the sense of personal…

— George Orwell

You need to look at inequality as a typical condition of modern society.

— Rem Koolhaas

“With the recent demise of totalitarian communisms, and new rise of capital’sglobal reach and power, it has become fashionable to explain away today’s gross…

— Kent Welton

The modern economy isn't about the redistribution of wealth, it's about the redistribution of time.

— Douglas Coupland