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If the President asked you to help, I don’t think anybody could refuse, unless one felt that one couldn’t be effective.

Joseph Stiglitz

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In developing countries, lack of infrastructure is a far more serious barrier to trade than tariffs.
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Nationalization of private debts undermines prudential lender behavior and is a government intervention in the market.
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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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What you measure affects what you do. If you don’t measure the right thing, you don’t do the right thing.
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Economists often like startling theorems, results which seem to run counter to conventional wisdom.
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Conventional Counter Economy Result Wisdom
American inequality didn’t just happen. It was created.
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Country Creation Happen Inequality
When I said “the pocket of the banks,” it is not necessarily a mercenary relationship. It is a mindset.
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Bank Mindset Pocket
When markets fail, as they often do, collective action becomes imperative.
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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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Loose money and light regulation were a toxic mixture. It exploded.
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Climate change is a reality.
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The problem is a lot of what is called economics is not economics. It is more ideology or religion.
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Economy Ideology Problem Religion
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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Workers’ rights should be a central focus of development.
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The extra curricular activity in which I was most engaged – debating – helped shape my interests in public policy.
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The U.S. basically wrote the rules and created the institutions of globalisation.
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