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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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Climate change is a reality.
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Change Climate One Liner Reality
The U.S. won’t be free of Covid-19 until the world is.
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Country Covid-19 World
When I said “the pocket of the banks,” it is not necessarily a mercenary relationship. It is a mindset.
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Bank Mindset Pocket
Inequality is a choice. It is not inevitable.
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Choice Inequality Inevitable
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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Bank Education Focus Infrastructure International Investment Poverty Private Project
Poverty is what we call the extremes at the bottom.
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Bottom Country Extreme Poverty
The extra curricular activity in which I was most engaged – debating – helped shape my interests in public policy.
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Activity Circular Debt Help Interest Policy Public
The U.S. basically wrote the rules and created the institutions of globalisation.
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Country Creation Global Institution Rule
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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Ask Effective Help President Refuse
Workers’ rights should be a central focus of development.
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Central Development Focus Rights
The problem is a lot of what is called economics is not economics. It is more ideology or religion.
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Economy Ideology Problem Religion
But while I loved all of these courses, there was an irresistible attraction of economics.
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Attraction Economy
I grew up in a family in which political issues were often discussed, and debated intensely.
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Debt Discuss Family Grow Up Intense Politics
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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Affect Measure Right
Amherst is a liberal arts college, committed to providing students with a broad education.
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Broad College Education Student
The reason that the invisible hand often seems invisible is that it is often not there.
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Invisible Reason
It’s easy to get rich by getting a state asset at a deep discount.
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Asset Discount Rich Strategy
Macroeconomic policy can never be devoid of politics: it involves fundamental trade-offs and affects different groups differently.
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Different Economy Fundamental Group Involvement Policy Politics
GDP tells you nothing about sustainability.
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Economy GDP Sustain
Economists often like startling theorems, results which seem to run counter to conventional wisdom.
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Conventional Counter Economy Result Wisdom
Development is about transforming the lives of people, not just transforming economies.
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Development Economy Live People Transformation
Bitcoin is successful only because of its potential for circumvention, lack of oversight.
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Bitcoin Lack Oversight Potential Success
When markets fail, as they often do, collective action becomes imperative.
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Bitcoin Crypto Currency Failure Market Share Market
Anybody who knows about capitalism knows that bankruptcy is an essential part of capitalism.
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Bankrupt Capital Essential Investment
Multinational corporations must pay their fair share of taxes.
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Business Corporation Pay Tax
Loose money and light regulation were a toxic mixture. It exploded.
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Mixture Money Toxic
It’s expensive to keep 2.3 million people in prison.
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Expensive People Prison

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