Productivity Quote by Tony Judt

“Inequality can be alleviated and productivity growth promoted by combating overly zealous and regressive regulations”

— Robert J. Gordon

But it is also clear that left entirely untouched by public policy, the capitalist system will produce more inequality than is socially healthy or…

— Barney Frank

“It's not the most advanced society we should be aiming to build that only cares for efficiency, rather our aim should be to build…

— Abhijit Naskar

“What I am getting at is that there is a point at which efficiency crosses over into lunacy, and the savings in money or…

— Mary Roach

“Equality works. Extreme inequality does not. Out of the grotesque opportunism that we’ve seen among owners of great wealth in the past ten years…

— David Cay Johnston

“The analysis of our illustrations has taught us another incidental lesson. This is that, when we study the effects of various proposals, not merely…

— Henry Hazlitt

Inequality causes problems by creating fissures in societies, leaving those at the bottom feeling marginalized or disenfranchised.

— Nicholas Kristof

“Specialization is undeniably a powerful social and economic force. And yet it is also debilitating. It breeds helplessness, dependence, and ignorance and, eventually, it…

— Michael Pollan

“No natural forces determine income, wealth, and the quality of human life. We make the decisions about who will prosper and who will not—or…

— David Cay Johnston

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

— Trevor Paglen

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

— Edward Luce

A better distribution of incomes would increase that efficiency by diverting a great fund of wealth from the useless to the useful members of…

— Walter Lippmann