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Population, when unchecked, goes on doubling itself every 25 years or increases in a geometrical ratio. Thomas Malthus

Environmental Every Increases Ratio Geometrical Years Itself Goes Doubling Population

Population, when unchecked, increases in a geometrical ratio. Thomas Malthus

Increases Ratio Geometrical Population

A great emigration necessarily implies unhappiness of some kind or other in the country that is deserted. Thomas Malthus

Great Country Other Kind Some Emigration Implies Unhappiness Deserted Necessarily

The histories of mankind are histories only of the higher classes. Thomas Malthus

Classes Only Higher Histories Mankind

It is an acknowledged truth in philosophy that a just theory will always be confirmed by experiment. Thomas Malthus

Truth Will Experiment Philosophy Always Just Confirmed Acknowledged Theory

The great and unlooked for discoveries that have taken place of late years have all concurred to lead many men into the opinion that we were touching on a period big with the most important changes. Thomas Malthus

Great Men Important Big Changes Late Touching Lead Taken Most Period Opinion Were Years Discoveries The Most Important Place Many

Each pursues his own theory, little solicitous to correct or improve it by an attention to what is advanced by his opponents. Thomas Malthus

Own Correct Advanced Attention Opponents His Improve Little Theory Each

I think it will be found that experience, the true source and foundation of all knowledge, invariably confirms its truth. Thomas Malthus

Truth Knowledge Experience Will Think Invariably True Source Found Foundation

We want capitalism and market forces to be the slave of democracy rather than the opposite. Thomas Piketty

Democracy Capitalism Market Market Forces Rather Forces Opposite Than Want Slave

My premise is not to tax to destroy the wealth of the wealthy; it's to increase the wealth of the bottom and the middle class. Thomas Piketty

Class Wealth Increase Destroy Wealthy Bottom Middle Tax Middle Class Premise

Economists should be modest and be aware that they are part of the broader social science community. We need to be pragmatic about the methods we use. When we need to do history, we should do history. When we need to study political science, we should study political science. Thomas Piketty

History Science Political Community Broader About Part Study Economists Pragmatic Methods Political Science Social Modest Should Use Aware Need

Having a decent share of the national wealth for the middle class is not bad for growth. It is actually useful both for equity and efficiency reasons. Thomas Piketty

Class Wealth National Bad Having Both Share Equity Efficiency Decent Middle Middle Class Useful Reasons Actually Growth

'Das Kapital,' I think, is very difficult to read, and for me, it was not very influential. Thomas Piketty

Me Difficult Think Read Very Influential

The United States could transform its property tax system into a progressive tax on net worth without asking permission to the rest of the world. Thomas Piketty

Property World Worth Rest Progressive States System Net Net Worth Could Without Permission Tax Transform Tax System Asking United United States

I loved American universities. In many ways, they are better organized - certainly than French universities. Thomas Piketty

Better Ways French Than American Loved Certainly Organized Many Universities

Economists tend to think they are much, much smarter than historians, than everybody. And this is a bit too much because at the end of the day, we don't know very much in economics. Thomas Piketty

Day End Of The Day Too Much Economics Think Too Everybody Bit Tend Smarter Economists Know Because Historians End Very Than Much

The U.S. is the country that invented progressive taxation of income and of inherited wealth in the 1910s and '20s. Thomas Piketty

Wealth Country Progressive Invented Taxation Inherited Income

I believe in the power of ideas, I believe in the power of books, but you have to give them time. Thomas Piketty

Time You Power Believe Books Give Ideas Them

Actually lowering the cost of insurance would be accomplished by such things as making it harder for lawyers to win frivolous lawsuits against insurance companies. Thomas Sowell

Win Would Would-Be Cost Lawsuits Lawyers Insurance Insurance Companies Making Accomplished Frivolous Frivolous Lawsuits Against Lowering Companies Such Things Harder Actually Things

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