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.Collection: Country
Refusing to deal with numbers rarely serves the interests of the least well-off.Collection: Numbers
For far too long economists have sought to define themselves in terms of their supposedly scientific methods. In fact, those methods rely on an immoderate use of mathematical models, which are frequently no more than an excuse for occupying the terrain and masking the vacuity of the content.Collection: Long
Without precisely defined sources, methods, and concepts, it is possible to see absolutely everything and its opposite.Collection: Opposites
The U.S. is the country that invented progressive taxation of income and of inherited wealth in the 1910s and 20s.Collection: Country
Das Kapital, I think, is very difficult to read, and for me, it was not very influential.Collection: Thinking
Democracy will never be supplanted by a republic of experts—and that is a very good thing.Collection: Democracy