The U.S. is the country that invented progressive taxation of income and of inherited wealth in the 1910s and 20s.

Over a long period of time, the main force in favor of greater equality has been the diffusion of knowledge and skills.

We know too little about global wealth dynamics, so we need international transmission of bank information.

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.

I don't think there is any serious evidence that we need to be paying people more than 100 times the average wage in order to get high-performing managers.

At the heart of every major political upheaval lies a fiscal revolution.

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