Indeed, the distribution of wealth is too important an issue to be left to economists, sociologists, historians, and philosophers.
Thomas PikettyThe U.S. is the country that invented progressive taxation of income and of inherited wealth in the 1910s and 20s.
Thomas PikettyIt's not Utopian to believe that we can create a global registry of financial assets so we know who owns what in different countries.
Thomas PikettyEconomists 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.
Thomas Piketty