No hypocrisy is too great when economic and financial elites are obliged to defend their interest.

I certainly agree that capital is not a one-dimensional object, and that the return on capital takes very different forms for different assets or different people.

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.

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

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

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

I loved American universities. In many ways, they are better organized - certainly than French universities.