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.

For far too long economists have sought to define themselves in terms of their supposedly scientific methods. In fact, those methods rely on an immoderate use of mathematical models, which are frequently no more than an excuse for occupying the terrain and masking the vacuity of the content.

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

Refusing to deal with numbers rarely serves the interests of the least well-off.

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

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.