I grew up in a family in which political issues were often discussed, and debated intensely.
JOSEPH STIGLITZMacroeconomic policy can never be devoid of politics: it involves fundamental trade-offs and affects different groups differently.
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Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.
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When markets fail, as they often do, collective action becomes imperative.
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Amherst is a liberal arts college, committed to providing students with a broad education.
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Workers’ rights should be a central focus of development.
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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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It is trust, more than money, that makes the world go round.
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It’s expensive to keep 2.3 million people in prison.
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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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The extra curricular activity in which I was most engaged – debating – helped shape my interests in public policy.
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Bitcoin is successful only because of its potential for circumvention, lack of oversight.
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Poverty is what we call the extremes at the bottom.
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Loose money and light regulation were a toxic mixture. It exploded.
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The U.S. basically wrote the rules and created the institutions of globalisation.
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The facts shouldn’t get in the way of a pleasant fantasy.
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The U.S. won’t be free of Covid-19 until the world is.
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