Das Kapital, I think, is very difficult to read, and for me, it was not very influential.

When inequality gets to an extreme, it is completely useless for growth.

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

No hypocrisy is too great when economic and financial elites are obliged to defend their interest.

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

For far too long economists have sought to define themselves in terms of their supposedly scientific methods. In fact, those methods rely on an immoderate use of mathematical models, which are frequently no more than an excuse for occupying the terrain and masking the vacuity of the content.

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