Workers’ rights should be a central focus of development.
JOSEPH STIGLITZIn developing countries, lack of infrastructure is a far more serious barrier to trade than tariffs.
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When you don’t have equality of opportunity because you don’t have equal access to education, it just seems so outrageous. It weakens our economy and leads to more inequality.
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We won’t have an economic recovery until Covid-19 is under control.
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Macroeconomic policy can never be devoid of politics: it involves fundamental trade-offs and affects different groups differently.
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Anybody who knows about capitalism knows that bankruptcy is an essential part of capitalism.
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It’s expensive to keep 2.3 million people in prison.
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Society can’t function without shared prosperity.
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In developing countries, lack of infrastructure is a far more serious barrier to trade than tariffs.
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The more divided a society becomes in terms of wealth, the more reluctant the wealthy are to spend money on common needs.
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The only surprise about the economic crisis of 2008 was that it came as a surprise to so many.
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Climate change poses an existential threat to the planet that is no less dire than that posed by North Korea’s nuclear ambitions.
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The reason that the invisible hand often seems invisible is that it is often not there.
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It’s easy to get rich by getting a state asset at a deep discount.
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Climate change is a reality.
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It is trust, more than money, that makes the world go round.
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GDP tells you nothing about sustainability.
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