Quotes by : Thomas Piketty

The main force pushing toward reduction in inequality has always been the diffusion of knowledge and....

They (economists) must set aside their contempt for other disciplines and their absurd claim to greater....

Once constituted, capital reproduces itself faster than output increases. The past devours the future.....

All told, over the period 1932-1980, nearly half a century, the top federal income tax rate in the United....

Protectionism does not produce wealth, and free trade and economic openness are ultimately in everyone’s....

We know something about billionaire consumption, but it is hard to measure some of it. Some billionaires....

Our democratic societies rest on a meritocratic worldview, or at any rate a meritocratic hope, by which....

Income from labor [in the United States] is about as unequally distributed as has ever been observed....