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JOSEPH STIGLITZInequality is a choice. It is not inevitable.
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Development is about transforming the lives of people, not just transforming economies.
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American inequality didn’t just happen. It was created.
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Multinational corporations must pay their fair share of taxes.
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Bitcoin is successful only because of its potential for circumvention, lack of oversight.
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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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The extra curricular activity in which I was most engaged – debating – helped shape my interests in public policy.
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Economists often like startling theorems, results which seem to run counter to conventional wisdom.
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It is trust, more than money, that makes the world go round.
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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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The facts shouldn’t get in the way of a pleasant fantasy.
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Climate change is a reality.
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But while I loved all of these courses, there was an irresistible attraction of economics.
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In developing countries, lack of infrastructure is a far more serious barrier to trade than tariffs.
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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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