We know too little about global wealth dynamics, so we need international transmission of bank information.

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

What was the good of industrial development, what was the good of all the technological innovations, toil, and population movements if, after half a century of industrial growth, the condition of the masses was still just as miserable as before, and all lawmakers could do was prohibit factory labor by children under the age of eight?

I don't think there is any serious evidence that we need to be paying people more than 100 times the average wage in order to get high-performing managers.

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

Over a long period of time, the main force in favor of greater equality has been the diffusion of knowledge and skills.

No hypocrisy is too great when economic and financial elites are obliged to defend their interest.