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

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 principal mechanism for convergence at the international as well as the domestic level is the diffusion of knowledge.

Our modern democratic ideal is based on the hope that inequalities will be based on merit more than inheritance or luck.

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.

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