Indeed, the distribution of wealth is too important an issue to be left to economists, sociologists, historians, and philosophers.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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