Being a parent is very important to me.
The principal mechanism for convergence at the international as well as the domestic level is the diffusion of knowledge.
It's not Utopian to believe that we can create a global registry of financial assets so we know who owns what in different countries.
Democracy will never be supplanted by a republic of experts—and that is a very good thing.
Das Kapital, I think, is very difficult to read, and for me, it was not very influential.
We know too little about global wealth dynamics, so we need international transmission of bank information.
When the rate of return on capital exceeds the rate of growth of output and income, as it did in the nineteenth century and seems quite likely to do again in the twenty-first, capitalism automatically generates arbitrary and unsustainable inequalities that radically undermine the meritocratic values on which democratic societies are based.
it's immoral to work to make money. There's something unlucky in it. You got to work for the work. You got to work on a farm, for the farm - then it makes money.
Beauty! Terrible Beauty! A deathless Goddess-- so she strikes our eyes!
I'm terrified of walking into a room full of people. Sitting down at a dinner table with 15 strangers brings me out in a sweat.
You lay, a small knuckle on my white bed; lay, that fist like a snail, small and strong at my breast. Your lips are animals; you are fed with love. At first, hunger is not wrong.