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

Wealth is so concentrated that a large segment of society is virtually unaware of its existence.

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

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.

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.

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

I certainly agree that capital is not a one-dimensional object, and that the return on capital takes very different forms for different assets or different people.