- Growth
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
We know too little about global wealth dynamics, so we need international transmission of bank information.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think if you look back through time, the history of income, wealth and taxation is full of surprise. So I am not terribly impressed by those who know in advance what will or will not happen.
- Growth
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- Nov 07, 2020
When inequality gets too extreme, then it becomes useless for growth, and it can even become bad because it tends to lead to high perpetuation of inequality over time and low mobility.
- Efficiency
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- Nov 07, 2020
Having a decent share of the national wealth for the middle class is not bad for growth. It is actually useful both for equity and efficiency reasons.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Das Kapital,' I think, is very difficult to read, and for me, it was not very influential.
- Rest
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Better
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- Nov 07, 2020
I loved American universities. In many ways, they are better organized - certainly than French universities.
- Economics
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- Nov 07, 2020
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 don't know very much in economics.
- Income
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- Nov 07, 2020
The U.S. is the country that invented progressive taxation of income and of inherited wealth in the 1910s and '20s.
- Ensure
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- Nov 07, 2020
Capitalism and market forces are very powerful in producing wealth and innovation. But we need to ensure that these forces act in the common interest.
- Democracy
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- Nov 07, 2020
We want capitalism and market forces to be the slave of democracy rather than the opposite.
- Common Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Market forces and capitalism by themselves aren't sufficient to ensure the common good and to limit the concentration of wealth at levels that are compatible with democratic ideals.
- Once
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- Nov 07, 2020