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

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

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

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

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

When the rate of return on capital exceeds the rate of growth of output and income, as it did in the nineteenth century and seems quite likely to do again in the twenty-first, capitalism automatically generates arbitrary and unsustainable inequalities that radically undermine the meritocratic values on which democratic societies are based.

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