Inequality is a choice. It is not inevitable.
JOSEPH STIGLITZAmerican inequality didn’t just happen. It was created.
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Economists often like startling theorems, results which seem to run counter to conventional wisdom.
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Amherst is a liberal arts college, committed to providing students with a broad education.
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The reason that the invisible hand often seems invisible is that it is often not there.
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It is trust, more than money, that makes the world go round.
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Macroeconomic policy can never be devoid of politics: it involves fundamental trade-offs and affects different groups differently.
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Multinational corporations must pay their fair share of taxes.
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American 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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In developing countries, lack of infrastructure is a far more serious barrier to trade than tariffs.
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We won’t have an economic recovery until Covid-19 is under control.
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The U.S. won’t be free of Covid-19 until the world is.
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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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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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GDP tells you nothing about sustainability.
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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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