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

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.

We want capitalism and market forces to be the slave of democracy rather than the opposite.

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.

It's not Utopian to believe that we can create a global registry of financial assets so we know who owns what in different countries.

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

At the heart of every major political upheaval lies a fiscal revolution.