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.

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

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?

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

We want capitalism and market forces to be the slave of democracy rather than the opposite.

The democratic ideal has always been related to a moderate level of inequality. I think one big reason why electoral democracy flourished in 19th century America better than 19th century Europe is because you had more equal distribution of wealth in America.

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.