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

What was the good of industrial development, what was the good of all the technological innovations, toil, and population movements if, after half a century of industrial growth, the condition of the masses was still just as miserable as before, and all lawmakers could do was prohibit factory labor by children under the age of eight?

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.

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

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.

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

The U.S. is the country that invented progressive taxation of income and of inherited wealth in the 1910s and 20s.