Without precisely defined sources, methods, and concepts, it is possible to see absolutely everything and its opposite.
Thomas PikettyIndeed, the distribution of wealth is too important an issue to be left to economists, sociologists, historians, and philosophers.
Thomas PikettyThere 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.
Thomas PikettyI 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.
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