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.
JOSEPH STIGLITZAnybody who knows about capitalism knows that bankruptcy is an essential part of capitalism.
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American inequality didn’t just happen. It was created.
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The U.S. basically wrote the rules and created the institutions of globalisation.
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It’s expensive to keep 2.3 million people in prison.
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Workers’ rights should be a central focus of development.
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I grew up in a family in which political issues were often discussed, and debated intensely.
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Climate change is a reality.
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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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Multinational corporations must pay their fair share of taxes.
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The reason that the invisible hand often seems invisible is that it is often not there.
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Bitcoin is successful only because of its potential for circumvention, lack of oversight.
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When markets fail, as they often do, collective action becomes imperative.
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But while I loved all of these courses, there was an irresistible attraction of economics.
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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 I said “the pocket of the banks,” it is not necessarily a mercenary relationship. It is a mindset.
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Inequality is a choice. It is not inevitable.
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