“If our economic system is to survive, there has to be a better distribution of wealth ... we can't have a system where some people live in superfluous, inordinate wealth, while others live in abject deadening poverty.” PeopleIfsWealthPovertyEconomicUnexpectedDistributionSuperfluousEconomic SystemsDistribution Of Wealth Author:Martin Luther King, Jr.
“Many of the technologies that are now racing ahead most rapidly, replacing human workers in factories and offices with machines, making stockholders richer and workers poorer, are indeed tending to accentuate the existing inequalities in the distribution of wealth.” HumansWealthTechnologyOfficeMachinesWorkersInequalityRacingFactoriesDistributionAccentuateDistribution Of Wealth Author:Freeman Dyson
“Peoples have come to experience that political structures and divisions of power are not immutable. Nor will they perceive the distribution of wealth and resources between nations to be unalterably ordained by heaven and incapable of drastic rearrangement by the less than gentle manipulation of man.” MenPoliticalHeavenNationsWealthResourcesStructurePerceiveGentleManipulationDivisionIncapableDistributionDrasticDistribution Of Wealth Author:Bob Hawke
“The distribution of wealth is even more unequal than that of income. ...The wealthiest 5% of American households held 54% of all wealth reported in the 1989 survey. Their share rose to 61% in 2010 and reached 63% in 2013. By contrast, the rest of those in the top half of the wealth distribution families that in 2013 had a net worth between $81,000 and $1.9 million held 43% of wealth in 1989 and only 36% in 2013.” WealthHalfMillionsShareRoseIncomeInequalityContrastHouseholdDistributionSurveysNet WorthDistribution Of WealthWealth Inequality Author:Janet Yellen
“We propose in the following Treatise to give an outline of the Science which treats of the Nature, the Production, and the Distribution of Wealth. To that Science we give the name of Political Economy.” GivingSciencePoliticalNamesWealthEconomyTreatsProductionsFollowingDistributionProposeOutlinesPolitical EconomyDistribution Of WealthPolitics And Economics Book:Political Economy Source: Political Economy
“The need for de-development presents our economists with a major challenge. They must design a stable, low-consumption economy in which there is a much more equitable distribution of wealth than in the present one. Redistribution of wealth both within and among nations is absolutely essential if a decent life is to be provided for every human being.” IfsNeedsHumansLife IsNationsChallengesWealthHuman BeingsEconomyDesignDevelopmentEssentialsMajorsLowsDecentStableConsumptionEconomistDistributionEquitableDistribution Of WealthRedistribution Of WealthDecent Life Author:John Holdren
“Economics is not politics. One is a science, concerned with the immutable and constant laws of nature that determine the production and distribution of wealth; the other is the art of ruling.” ArtLawWealthSocietyConcernedEconomicsConstantDetermineProductionsDistributionRulingLaws Of NatureDistribution Of Wealth Book:The Rise & Fall of Society Source: The Rise & Fall of Society