Thomas Piketty
French economist at the Paris School of Economics, born in 1971; author of Capital in the Twenty-First Century (French edition 2013, English 2014).
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The distribution of wealth has always been political and cannot be reduced to economic mechanisms
Their wordsThe first is that one should be wary of any economic determinism in regard to inequalities of wealth and income. The history of the distribution of wealth has always been deeply political, and it cannot be reduced to purely economic mechanisms.
↗Capital in the Twenty-First Century (Harvard University Press, 2017 paperback; tr. Arthur Goldhammer)books.google.com All 2 from this book
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Their wordsTo put it bluntly, the discipline of economics has yet to get over its childish passion for mathematics and for purely theoretical and often highly ideological speculation, at the expense of historical research and collaboration with the other social sciences.
↗Capital in the Twenty-First Century (Harvard University Press, 2017 paperback; tr. Arthur Goldhammer)books.google.com All 2 from this book