It's not Utopian to believe that we can create a global registry of financial assets so we know who owns what in different countries.

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

Our modern democratic ideal is based on the hope that inequalities will be based on merit more than inheritance or luck.

Economists have put themselves in a position where what they are doing is supposed to be impossible to understand for outsiders, so they dont even talk - sometimes not even with their girlfriend or boyfriend or friends - about what they are doing.

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

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

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