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Piketty, Thomas, and Gabriel Zucman. Capital is back: Wealth-income ratios in rich countries, 1700-2010 http://piketty.pse.ens.fr/files/PikettyZucman2013WP.pdf. Centre for Economic Policy Research, 2013.

“To put it bluntly, the discipline of economics has yet to get over its childish passion for mathematics.”

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Thomas Piketty libro Capital in the Twenty-First Century

Origine: Capital in the Twenty-First Century (2013), p. 32.

“Let it be said at once: Trump’s victory is primarily due to the explosion in economic and geographic inequality in the United States over several decades and the inability of successive governments to deal with this.”

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We must rethink globalization, or Trumpism will prevail (16 November 2016)

“The tragedy is that Trump’s program will only strengthen the trend towards inequality.”

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We must rethink globalization, or Trumpism will prevail (16 November 2016)

“There should be no more signing of international agreements that reduce customs duties and other commercial barriers without including quantified and binding measures to combat fiscal and climate dumping in those same treaties.”

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We must rethink globalization, or Trumpism will prevail (16 November 2016)

“Economists are all too often preoccupied with petty mathematical problems of interest only to themselves. This obsession with mathematics is an easy way of acquiring the appearance of scientificity without having to answer the far more complex questions posed by the world we live in.”

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Thomas Piketty libro Capital in the Twenty-First Century

Origine: Capital in the Twenty-First Century (2013), p. 32.

“Both the Clinton and the Obama administrations frequently went along with the market liberalization launched under Reagan and both Bush presidencies. At times they even outdid them.”

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We must rethink globalization, or Trumpism will prevail (16 November 2016)

“I can now present the first fundamental law of capitalism, which links the capital stock to the flow of income from capital. The capital/income ratio β is related in a simple way to the share of income from capital in national income, denoted α. The formula is
α = r × β
Where r is the rate of return on capital.
For example, if β=600% and r = 5%, then α = r × β = 30%.
In other words, if national wealth represents the equivalent of six years of national income, and the rate of return on capital is 5 percent per year, then capital’s share in national income is 30 percent.”

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Thomas Piketty libro Capital in the Twenty-First Century

Origine: Capital in the Twenty-First Century (2013), p. 52.

“A balanced treaty between Canada and Europe, aimed at promoting a partnership for fair and sustainable development, should begin by specifying the emission targets of each signatory and the practical commitments to achieve these.”

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We must rethink globalization, or Trumpism will prevail (16 November 2016)

“We know something about billionaire consumption, but it is hard to measure some of it. Some billionaires are consuming politicians, others consume reporters, and some consume academics.”

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Quoted in Chuck Collins, Nit-Picking Piketty http://inequality.org/nitpicking-piketty/ (2015).
At ASSA http://events.mediasite.com/Mediasite/Play/b6d6725ea1df49c896fc82465f732e9b1d, 01:40:27.

“The overall importance of capital today, as noted, is not very different from what it was in the eighteenth century. Only its form has changed: capital was once mainly land but is now industrial, financial, and real estate. We also know that the concentration of wealth remains high, although it is noticeably less extreme than it was a century ago. The poorest half of the population still owns nothing, but there is now a patrimonial middle class that owns between a middle and a third of total wealth, and the wealthiest ten percent now own only-two thirds of what there is to own rather than nine-tenths.”

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Thomas Piketty libro Capital in the Twenty-First Century

Origine: Capital in the Twenty-First Century (2013), p. 377; As cited in: " Thomas Piketty Capital in the twenty first century‎ Part III http://robertpaulwolff.blogspot.nl/2014/03/thomas-piketty-capital-in-twenty-first_30.html" on robertpaulwolff.blogspot.nl, 2014/03.

“The right seems unable to mount any kind of substantive counterattack to Mr. Piketty’s thesis. Instead, the response has been all about name-calling.”

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Paul Krugman " The Piketty Panic http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/25/opinion/krugman-the-piketty-panic.html" in nytimes.com, 2014/04/25; cited in: " Six Ways Thomas Piketty's 'Capital' Isn't Holding Up to Scrutiny http://www.forbes.com/sites/kylesmith/2014/05/01/six-ways-thomas-pikettys-capital-isnt-holding-up-to-scrutiny/" by Kyle Smith at forbes.com, 2014/04/25.
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“Broadly speaking, the rise of the supermanager is largely an Anglo-Saxon phenomenon.”

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Thomas Piketty libro Capital in the Twenty-First Century

Origine: Capital in the Twenty-First Century (2013), p. 315.

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

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Thomas Piketty libro Capital in the Twenty-First Century

Origine: Capital in the Twenty-First Century (2013), p. 2.

“The distribution of wealth is one of today’s most widely discussed and controversial issues. But what do we really know about its evolution over the long term? Do the dynamics of private capital accumulation inevitably lead to the concentration of wealth in ever fewer hands, as Karl Marx believed in the nineteenth century? Or do the balancing forces of growth, competition, and technological progress lead in later stages of development to reduced inequality and greater harmony among the classes, as Simon Kuznets thought in the twentieth century? What do we really know about how wealth and income have evolved since the eighteenth century, and what lessons can we derive from that knowledge for the century now under way?”

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Thomas Piketty libro Capital in the Twenty-First Century

Origine: Capital in the Twenty-First Century (2013), p. 1 Introduction: Lead paragraph; Quoted in From the Introduction to Capital in the Twenty-First Century, by Thomas Piketty http://www.hup.harvard.edu/features/capital-in-the-twenty-first-century-introduction.html, at hup.harvard.edu, 2014.

“Modern economic growth and the diffusion of knowledge have made it possible to avoid the Marxist apocalypse but have not modified the deep structures of capital and inequality—or in any case not as much as one might have imagined in the optimistic decades following World War II.”

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Thomas Piketty libro Capital in the Twenty-First Century

Origine: Capital in the Twenty-First Century (2013), p. 1.

“I am trying to put the distributional question and the study of long-run trends back at the heart of economic analysis. In that sense, I am pursuing a tradition which was pioneered by the economists of the 19th century, including David Ricardo and Karl Marx. One key difference is that I have a lot more historical data. With the help of Tony Atkinson, Emmanuel Saez, Facundo Alvaredo, Gilles Postel-Vinay, Jean-Laurent Rosenthal, Gabriel Zucman and many other scholars, we have been able to collect a unique set of data covering three centuries and over 20 countries. This is by far the most extensive database available in regard to the historical evolution of income and wealth. This book proposes an interpretative synthesis based upon this collective data collection project.”

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Eduardo Porter, " Q&A: Thomas Piketty on the Wealth Divide http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/03/11/qa-thomas-piketty-on-the-wealth-divide/?_php=true&_type=blogs&_r=0," economix.blogs.nytimes.com, March 11, 2014.
In answer of the question: "Your book fits oddly into the canon of contemporary economics. It focuses not on growth and its determinants, but on how the spoils of growth are divided. In that sense, it reminds us of similar concerns in a book of similar title written 150 years ago: Karl Marx’s “Capital.” What parallels would you draw between the two?"