Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.
JOSEPH STIGLITZAmerican inequality didn’t just happen. It was created.
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Anybody who knows about capitalism knows that bankruptcy is an essential part of capitalism.
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But while I loved all of these courses, there was an irresistible attraction of economics.
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Development is about transforming the lives of people, not just transforming economies.
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When markets fail, as they often do, collective action becomes imperative.
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Bitcoin is successful only because of its potential for circumvention, lack of oversight.
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It’s expensive to keep 2.3 million people in prison.
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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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Climate change is a reality.
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In developing countries, lack of infrastructure is a far more serious barrier to trade than tariffs.
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The reason that the invisible hand often seems invisible is that it is often not there.
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The U.S. won’t be free of Covid-19 until the world is.
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Poverty is what we call the extremes at the bottom.
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Multinational corporations must pay their fair share of taxes.
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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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Society can’t function without shared prosperity.
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