The U.S. won’t be free of Covid-19 until the world is.
JOSEPH STIGLITZIn developing countries, lack of infrastructure is a far more serious barrier to trade than tariffs.
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The facts shouldn’t get in the way of a pleasant fantasy.
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Anybody who knows about capitalism knows that bankruptcy is an essential part of capitalism.
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It’s easy to get rich by getting a state asset at a deep discount.
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We won’t have an economic recovery until Covid-19 is under control.
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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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Macroeconomic policy can never be devoid of politics: it involves fundamental trade-offs and affects different groups differently.
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Multinational corporations must pay their fair share of taxes.
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Development is about transforming the lives of people, not just transforming economies.
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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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The problem is a lot of what is called economics is not economics. It is more ideology or religion.
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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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Climate change is a reality.
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Poverty is what we call the extremes at the bottom.
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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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