Workers’ rights should be a central focus of development.
JOSEPH STIGLITZWhen 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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Bitcoin is successful only because of its potential for circumvention, lack of oversight.
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Inequality is a choice. It is not inevitable.
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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.
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It’s easy to get rich by getting a state asset at a deep discount.
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The reason that the invisible hand often seems invisible is that it is often not there.
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American inequality didn’t just happen. It was created.
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Anybody who knows about capitalism knows that bankruptcy is an essential part of capitalism.
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GDP tells you nothing about sustainability.
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It’s expensive to keep 2.3 million people in prison.
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Loose money and light regulation were a toxic mixture. It exploded.
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Economists often like startling theorems, results which seem to run counter to conventional wisdom.
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In developing countries, lack of infrastructure is a far more serious barrier to trade than tariffs.
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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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Nationalization of private debts undermines prudential lender behavior and is a government intervention in the market.
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It is trust, more than money, that makes the world go round.
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