"There is one great advantage to being an academic economist in France: here, economists are not highly respected in the academic and intellectual world or by political and financial elites. Hence they must set aside their contempt for other disciplines and their absurd claim to greater scientific legitimacy, despite the fact that they know almost nothing about anything."

Source : Thomas Piketty (2017). “Capital in the Twenty-First Century”, p.41, Harvard University Press

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