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

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?

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

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

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.

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

It's not Utopian to believe that we can create a global registry of financial assets so we know who owns what in different countries.