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

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.

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

It's important to realize that innovation and growth in itself are not sufficient to moderate inequality of wealth.

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

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