The reason that the invisible hand often seems invisible is that it is often not there.
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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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When markets fail, as they often do, collective action becomes imperative.
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Society can’t function without shared prosperity.
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International lending banks need to focus on areas where private investment doesn’t go, such as infrastructure projects, education and poverty relief.
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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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Development is about transforming the lives of people, not just transforming economies.
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When I said “the pocket of the banks,” it is not necessarily a mercenary relationship. It is a mindset.
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But while I loved all of these courses, there was an irresistible attraction of economics.
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Bitcoin is successful only because of its potential for circumvention, lack of oversight.
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American inequality didn’t just happen. It was created.
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Inequality is a choice. It is not inevitable.
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Climate change is a reality.
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Poverty is what we call the extremes at the bottom.
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Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.
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Anybody who knows about capitalism knows that bankruptcy is an essential part of capitalism.
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