When inequality gets to an extreme, it is completely useless for growth.

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.

Indeed, the distribution of wealth is too important an issue to be left to economists, sociologists, historians, and philosophers.

Das Kapital, I think, is very difficult to read, and for me, it was not very influential.

Without precisely defined sources, methods, and concepts, it is possible to see absolutely everything and its opposite.

The discipline of economics has yet to get over its childish passion for mathematics and for purely theoretical and often highly ideological speculation, at the expense of historical research and collaboration with the other social sciences.

It's important to realize that innovation and growth in itself are not sufficient to moderate inequality of wealth.