American inequality didn’t just happen. It was created.
JOSEPH STIGLITZThe U.S. basically wrote the rules and created the institutions of globalisation.
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In developing countries, lack of infrastructure is a far more serious barrier to trade than tariffs.
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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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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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Society can’t function without shared prosperity.
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GDP tells you nothing about sustainability.
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Development is about transforming the lives of people, not just transforming economies.
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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 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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It’s easy to get rich by getting a state asset at a deep discount.
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Letting bygones be bygones is a basic principle in economics.
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The reason that the invisible hand often seems invisible is that it is often not there.
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Inequality is a choice. It is not inevitable.
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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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We won’t have an economic recovery until Covid-19 is under control.
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Bitcoin is successful only because of its potential for circumvention, lack of oversight.
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