Iuri Colares

“Between 1880 and 1914 the world was in perpetual flux. The automobile, the electric light, the trans-Atlantic steamship, the telegraph, and radio—all were invented in the space of a few decades. The economic and social consequences of those inventions were surely as important as those of Facebook, Amazon, and Uber. The point is crucial, because it shows that the hyper-inegalitarianism of the prewar era was not a consequence of a bygone era with little or no similarity to today’s world. In fact, the Belle Époque resembles today’s world in many ways, even if essential differences remain.”
― Thomas Piketty, Capital and Ideology

“Alternation between parties is normal in a democracy, and these Democratic victories were in part a consequence of the voters’ natural fatigue with the Republicans, who had also been tarnished by various financial scandals, as often happens to parties in power.”
― Thomas Piketty, Capital and Ideology

“Why is it so hard to say clearly that privatization would worsen, not improve, Social Security’s finances?”
― Paul Krugman, Arguing with Zombies: Economics, Politics, and the Fight for a Better Future

“At this stage, I will simply insist on a conclusion we have encountered before: namely, that it is impossible to understand the structure of inequality today without taking into account the heavy inegalitarian legacy of slavery and colonialism.”
― Thomas Piketty, Capital and Ideology