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

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

I am not political. It is not my job. But I would be happy if politicians could read my work and draw some conclusions from it.

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

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

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.

The democratic ideal has always been related to a moderate level of inequality. I think one big reason why electoral democracy flourished in 19th century America better than 19th century Europe is because you had more equal distribution of wealth in America.