Society can’t function without shared prosperity.
JOSEPH STIGLITZAmerican inequality didn’t just happen. It was created.
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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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But while I loved all of these courses, there was an irresistible attraction of economics.
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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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Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.
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Amherst is a liberal arts college, committed to providing students with a broad education.
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Anybody who knows about capitalism knows that bankruptcy is an essential part of capitalism.
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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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The facts shouldn’t get in the way of a pleasant fantasy.
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In developing countries, lack of infrastructure is a far more serious barrier to trade than tariffs.
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Poverty is what we call the extremes at the bottom.
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The U.S. won’t be free of Covid-19 until the world is.
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Economists often like startling theorems, results which seem to run counter to conventional wisdom.
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Workers’ rights should be a central focus of development.
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The problem is a lot of what is called economics is not economics. It is more ideology or religion.
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Anybody who knows about capitalism knows that bankruptcy is an essential part of capitalism.
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