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

At the heart of every major political upheaval lies a fiscal revolution.

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.

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

Contrary to a tenacious myth, France is not owned by California pension funds or the Bank of China, any more than the United States belongs to Japanese and German investors. The fear of getting into such a predicament is so strong today that fantasy often outstrips reality. The reality is that inequality with respect to capital is a far greater domestic issue than it is an international one.

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

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