Thomas Piketty Quotes

• 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.

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  Growth, Democracy, Society

  Thomas Piketty (2017). “Capital in the Twenty-First Century”, p.1, Harvard University Press

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

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  Wealth, Existence

  Thomas Piketty (2014). “Capital in the Twenty-First Century”, p.259, Harvard University Press

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

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  Opposites, Democracy, Want

  "Economist says U.S. inequality reaching "spectacular" heights". Interview with Alain Sherter, www.cbsnews.com. June 5, 2014.

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

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  Hypocrisy, Financial, Economic

  Thomas Piketty (2014). “Capital in the Twenty-First Century”, p.514, Harvard University Press

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

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  Growth, Useless, Inequality

  "French economist Thomas Piketty compares US economy to Europe in the Gilded Age". Interview with The Associated Press, www.oregonlive.com. April 23, 2014.

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

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  Innovation, Growth, Important

  "French economist Thomas Piketty compares US economy to Europe in the Gilded Age". Associated Press Interview, www.oregonlive.com. April 23, 2014.

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• Our modern democratic ideal is based on the hope that inequalities will be based on merit more than inheritance or luck.

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  Democratic Ideals, Luck, Inheritance

  "French economist Thomas Piketty compares US economy to Europe in the Gilded Age". Associated Press Interview, www.oregonlive.com. April 23, 2014.

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

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  Skills, Long, Favors

  Thomas Piketty (2014). “Capital in the Twenty-First Century”, p.22, Harvard University Press

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• 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?

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  Children, Eight, Innovation

  Thomas Piketty (2014). “Capital in the Twenty-First Century”, p.8, Harvard University Press

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• The discipline of economics has yet to get over its childish passion for mathematics and for purely theoretical and often highly ideological speculation, at the expense of historical research and collaboration with the other social sciences.

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  Passion, Discipline, Historical

  "Capital in the Twenty-First Century". Book by Thomas Piketty, March 10, 2014.

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

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  Lying, Heart, Political

  Thomas Piketty (2014). “Capital in the Twenty-First Century”, p.493, Harvard University Press

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• De hecho, la distribución de la riqueza es una cuestión demasiado importante para dejarla en manos de economistas, sociólogos, historiadores y filósofos.

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  Issues, Important, Distribution Of Wealth

  Thomas Piketty (2014). “Capital in the Twenty-First Century”, p.2, Harvard University Press

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• 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.

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  Pensar, Promedio, Orden

  "French economist Thomas Piketty compares US economy to Europe in the Gilded Age". Interview with The Associated Press, www.oregonlive.com. April 23, 2014.

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• The principal mechanism for convergence at the international as well as the domestic level is the diffusion of knowledge.

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  Levels, Wells, Diffusion

  Thomas Piketty (2014). “Capital in the Twenty-First Century”, p.71, Harvard University Press

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• El ideal democrático siempre ha estado relacionado con un nivel moderado de desigualdad. Creo que una de las principales razones por las que la democracia electoral floreció mejor en los Estados Unidos del siglo XIX que en Europa es que la distribución de la riqueza era más equitativa.

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  Thinking, Europe, Democratic Ideals

  "French economist Thomas Piketty compares US economy to Europe in the Gilded Age". The Associated Press Interview, www.oregonlive.com. April 23, 2014.

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• Contrary to a tenacious myth, France is not owned by California pension funds or the Bank of China, any more than the United States belongs to Japanese and German investors. The fear of getting into such a predicament is so strong today that fantasy often outstrips reality. The reality is that inequality with respect to capital is a far greater domestic issue than it is an international one.

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  Strong, Reality, California

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• There 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.

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  Discipline, Political, Intellectual

  Thomas Piketty (2017). “Capital in the Twenty-First Century”, p.41, Harvard University Press

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• I certainly agree that capital is not a one-dimensional object, and that the return on capital takes very different forms for different assets or different people.

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  People, Different, Return

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• 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.

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  Girlfriend, Outsiders, Impossible

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

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  Needs, Dynamics, Littles

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• 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.

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  Country, Believe, Different

  "Inequality will worsen in America unless… Piketty’s Rx". Interview with Paul Solman, www.pbs.org. May 12, 2014.

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

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  Numbers, Interest, Deals

  Thomas Piketty (2014). “Capital in the Twenty-First Century”, p.577, Harvard University Press

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• Durante demasiado tiempo, los economistas han intentado definirse a sí mismos en términos de sus métodos supuestamente científicos. De hecho, esos métodos se basan en un uso inmoderado de modelos matemáticos, que a menudo no son más que una excusa para ocupar el terreno y enmascarar la vacuidad del contenido.

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  Long, Use, Scientific Method

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

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  Opposites, Source, Method

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• The U.S. is the country that invented progressive taxation of income and of inherited wealth in the 1910s and 20s.

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  Country, Progressive Taxation, Income

  "Economist says U.S. inequality reaching "spectacular" heights". Interview with Alain Sherter, www.cbsnews.com. June 5, 2014.

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