Wealth is so concentrated that a large segment of society is virtually unaware of its existence.

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

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

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

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

What was the good of industrial development, what was the good of all the technological innovations, toil, and population movements if, after half a century of industrial growth, the condition of the masses was still just as miserable as before, and all lawmakers could do was prohibit factory labor by children under the age of eight?

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