It’s expensive to keep 2.3 million people in prison.
JOSEPH STIGLITZAsk not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.
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Poverty is what we call the extremes at the bottom.
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The U.S. basically wrote the rules and created the institutions of globalisation.
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Workers’ rights should be a central focus of development.
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Economists often like startling theorems, results which seem to run counter to conventional wisdom.
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The facts shouldn’t get in the way of a pleasant fantasy.
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The reason that the invisible hand often seems invisible is that it is often not there.
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Anybody who knows about capitalism knows that bankruptcy is an essential part of capitalism.
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Letting bygones be bygones is a basic principle in economics.
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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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Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.
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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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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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Bitcoin is successful only because of its potential for circumvention, lack of oversight.
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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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Multinational corporations must pay their fair share of taxes.
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