From one piece Thomas Piketty on the Politics of Equality (Conversations with Tyler, Ep. 148, recorded March 8, 2022; transcript) 5 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Roughly speaking, I am in favor of more control of capital and capital flows and less control of labor flows — whereas today, we do the opposite.
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France should pay reparations to HaitiTheir words
Yes, I think France should pay.
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Ultimately, what I care about is access to fundamental goods like education, health, participation in the political life, participation in economic life.
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To me, it’s clear that the key reason why the US has been an economic leader at the world level for most of the 20th century is because it was an educational leader.
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as I stress in my new book, A Brief History of Equality, there’s been a long-run movement toward more equality in history, together with a movement toward more economic prosperity, and I argue that the two movements really came together.