The extra curricular activity in which I was most engaged – debating – helped shape my interests in public policy.
JOSEPH STIGLITZSociety can’t function without shared prosperity.
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The U.S. won’t be free of Covid-19 until the world is.
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Amherst is a liberal arts college, committed to providing students with a broad education.
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Inequality is a choice. It is not inevitable.
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The U.S. basically wrote the rules and created the institutions of globalisation.
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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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Anybody who knows about capitalism knows that bankruptcy is an essential part of capitalism.
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Economists often like startling theorems, results which seem to run counter to conventional wisdom.
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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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The only surprise about the economic crisis of 2008 was that it came as a surprise to so many.
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American inequality didn’t just happen. It was created.
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I grew up in a family in which political issues were often discussed, and debated intensely.
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When I said “the pocket of the banks,” it is not necessarily a mercenary relationship. It is a mindset.
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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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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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But while I loved all of these courses, there was an irresistible attraction of economics.
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