It’s easy to get rich by getting a state asset at a deep discount.
JOSEPH STIGLITZThe U.S. won’t be free of Covid-19 until the world is.
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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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But while I loved all of these courses, there was an irresistible attraction of economics.
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Society can’t function without shared prosperity.
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Climate change is a reality.
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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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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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In developing countries, lack of infrastructure is a far more serious barrier to trade than tariffs.
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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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Bitcoin is successful only because of its potential for circumvention, lack of oversight.
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I grew up in a family in which political issues were often discussed, and debated intensely.
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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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Anybody who knows about capitalism knows that bankruptcy is an essential part of capitalism.
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The facts shouldn’t get in the way of a pleasant fantasy.
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Poverty is what we call the extremes at the bottom.
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