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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.

Joseph Stiglitz

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Loose money and light regulation were a toxic mixture. It exploded.
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Multinational corporations must pay their fair share of taxes.
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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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Society can’t function without shared prosperity.
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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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Nationalization of private debts undermines prudential lender behavior and is a government intervention in the market.
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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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Poverty is what we call the extremes at the bottom.
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GDP tells you nothing about sustainability.
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