Quotes About Thomas Piketty

Democracy will never be supplanted by a republic of experts—and that is a very good thing.

Having a decent share of the national wealth for the middle class is not bad for growth. It is actually useful both for equity and efficiency reasons.

Income from labor [in the United States] is about as unequally distributed as has ever been observed anywhere.

You need some inequality to grow... but extreme inequality is not only useless but can be harmful to growth because it reduces mobility and can lead to political capture of our democratic institutions.

I am not political. It is not my job. But I would be happy if politicians could read my work and draw some conclusions from it.