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

There is one great advantage to being an academic economist in France: here, economists are not highly respected in the academic and intellectual world or by political and financial elites. Hence they must set aside their contempt for other disciplines and their absurd claim to greater scientific legitimacy, despite the fact that they know almost nothing about anything.

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.

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.

Over a long period of time, the main force in favor of greater equality has been the diffusion of knowledge and skills.

I don't think there is any serious evidence that we need to be paying people more than 100 times the average wage in order to get high-performing managers.

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