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I'm not as pessimistic as what a number of people seem to believe.

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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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Yeah, I am in favor of migration. But I am also in favor of education. But at the same time, I am in favor of progressive taxation. I think we need all of this. I think we don't have to choose one.

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I was born too late to have any temptation with communism, or at least Soviet-type communism. Travelling in Eastern Europe and the ex-Soviet Union, you clearly don't want to defend a system that would have empty shops and a totalitarian regime and internal passports.

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

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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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I think inequality is fine, as long as it is in the common interest. The problem is when it gets so extreme, when it becomes excessive.

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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 don't even talk - sometimes not even with their girlfriend or boyfriend or friends - about what they are doing.

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Biography

Nationality: French

Type: Economist

Born: May 7th, 1971

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