Paul Krugman Quotes

The world is richer than ever, and the gaps between rich and poor are wider.

I don't mind the rich getting richer, but the poor shouldn't be getting poorer, and there should be more people moving into the middle class.

Economic inequality is a corrosive force that undermines economic growth, puts a brake on the fight against poverty, and sparks social unrest.

Half the U.S. population owns barely 2 percent of its wealth, putting the United States near Rwanda and Uganda and below such nations as pre-Arab Spring Tunisia and Egypt when measured by degrees of income inequality.

You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich.

If no man could become rich in Peru, no man could become poor.

No one should have more than five times the wealth of the poorest person.

The association of poverty with progress is the enigma of our times.

For the good of Spain, I should like there to be rather fewer rich people and rather fewer poor.

Distribution of the wealth of the world is something for which no one sees a practical solution

This society cannot go forward, the way we have been going forward, where the gap between the rich and the poor keeps growing.

This country is very good at creating wealth, but not very good at distributing it.

Too much of the GDP over the last generation has gone to too few of the people.

Rising inequality has changed family dynamics for all socioeconomic groups.

Globalization in the aggregate generates wealth, no question. But it gets concentrated.

Talking about income inequality, even if you're not on the Forbes 400 list, can make us feel uncomfortable. It feels less positive, less optimistic, to talk about how the pie is sliced than to think about how to make the pie bigger.

The United States is the richest and also the most unequal country in the world.

The U.S. has some of the most significant income inequality in the developed world, yet people seem routinely to underestimate that fact.

The French don't think everyone should have the same bank balance, but they're offended by extremes of inequality.

I don't really care much about what the top one per cent earn. The gap we ought to care about in wealth is between the middle and the bottom.

What good is a high GDP if some, or even many, Americans are left behind?

The inequality of income and fortunes is essential in capitalism.

In my view, there is no justice when the 15 wealthiest people in this country in the last two years, saw their wealth increase by $170 billion. That is more wealth acquired in a two year period than is owned by the bottom 130 million Americans.

At the turn of the twenty-first century, the richest 5 percent of people receive one-third of total global income, as much as the poorest 80 percent.

The interesting thing about class warfare is that it's only class warfare if it's up, not down. If you talk about welfare cheats or something, that's not class warfare because it's down; you have to talk about rich people before it's class warfare.