Let it be said at once: Trump’s victory is primarily due to the explosion in economic and geographic inequality in the United States over several dec… - Thomas Piketty

Broadly speaking, the rise of the supermanager is largely an Anglo-Saxon phenomenon.

National income is defined as the sum of all income available to the residents of a given country in a given year, regardless of the legal classification of that income.

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.