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.

The discipline of economics has yet to get over its childish passion for mathematics and for purely theoretical and often highly ideological speculation, at the expense of historical research and collaboration with the other social sciences.

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.

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

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

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