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34 quotes by Thomas Piketty

Thomas Piketty (French: [tɔˈma pikɛˈti]; born on 7 May 1971) is a French economist who works on wealth and income inequality. He is professor (directeur d'études) at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS) and professor at the Paris School of Economics. He is the author of the best-selling book Capital in the Twenty-First Century (2013), which emphasizes the themes of his work on wealth concentrations and distribution over...
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The United States could transform its property tax system into a progressive tax on net worth without asking permission to the rest of the world.

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There is a fundamentalist belief by capitalists that capital will save the world, and it just isn't so.

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What I argue for is a progressive tax, a global tax, based on the taxation of private property.

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Economists should be modest and be aware that they are part of the broader social science community. We need to be pragmatic about the methods we... →

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Economists tend to think they are much, much smarter than historians, than everybody. And this is a bit too much because at the end of the day, we... →

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I am afraid that if you don't find peaceful domestic solutions to our inequality and social problems, then it's always tempting to find other... →

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What I'm pushing for is an economic discipline that will be closer to other social sciences; in particular, we should be more pragmatic about the... →

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'Das Kapital,' I think, is very difficult to read, and for me, it was not very influential.

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I am not political. It is not my job. But I would be happy if politicians could read my work and draw some conclusions from it.

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I believe in the power of ideas, I believe in the power of books, but you have to give them time.

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I don't live in the Cold War. Some people maybe still live in the Cold War, but this is their problem, not mine.

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I don't pretend that I can predict the future value of the growth rate or rate of return.

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I loved American universities. In many ways, they are better organized - certainly than French universities.

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