Inequality is a choice. It is not inevitable.
JOSEPH STIGLITZWhen 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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It is trust, more than money, that makes the world go round.
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Bitcoin is successful only because of its potential for circumvention, lack of oversight.
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Nationalization of private debts undermines prudential lender behavior and is a government intervention in the market.
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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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Development is about transforming the lives of people, not just transforming economies.
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Economists often like startling theorems, results which seem to run counter to conventional wisdom.
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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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But while I loved all of these courses, there was an irresistible attraction of economics.
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Multinational corporations must pay their fair share of taxes.
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Climate change is a reality.
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Letting bygones be bygones is a basic principle in economics.
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Anybody who knows about capitalism knows that bankruptcy is an essential part of capitalism.
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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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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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