“Climate change is a reality.”

The U.S. basically wrote the rules and created the institutions of globalisation.

Development is about transforming the lives of people, not just transforming economies.

The reason that the invisible hand often seems invisible is that it is often not there.

Bitcoin is successful only because of its potential for circumvention, lack of oversight.

But while I loved all of these courses, there was an irresistible attraction of economics.

Macroeconomic policy can never be devoid of politics: it involves fundamental trade-offs and affects different groups differently.

The extra curricular activity in which I was most engaged – debating – helped shape my interests in public policy.

Multinational corporations must pay their fair share of taxes.

The more divided a society becomes in terms of wealth, the more reluctant the wealthy are to spend money on common needs.

Society can’t function without shared prosperity.

The only surprise about the economic crisis of 2008 was that it came as a surprise to so many.

Workers’ rights should be a central focus of development.

Climate change poses an existential threat to the planet that is no less dire than that posed by North Korea’s nuclear ambitions.

The problem is a lot of what is called economics is not economics. It is more ideology or religion.

In developing countries, lack of infrastructure is a far more serious barrier to trade than tariffs.

The U.S. won’t be free of Covid-19 until the world is.

She was not herself–she was not anything. She was something that is going to be–soon–soon–very soon. But as yet, she was only imminent.

The past is over, the future hasn’t happened yet, the only time is right now. This can be your threshold moment of change. The next year of your life is going to go by whether you’re doing something about your weight or not. Now,

Only take someone’s hand in a certain way, even look into their eyes in a certain way, and the world is changed forever.

All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another.

You only need to change your direction, said the cat, and ate it up.

You can draw a path for your life and have all of your goals set. You can change yourself as much as possible and change things around you just to reach those goals.

If we don’t change, we don’t grow. If we don’t grow, we aren’t really living.

Contrast the experience with something worse and you cannot help feeling happy and grateful because. The change from trouble to comfort gives us more pleasure than uninterrupted comfort does.