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" If manufacturing jobs do come back to the U.S., they will be done by robots in hi-tech parts of the country rather than the Rust Belt states. "
Joseph Stiglitz
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" I don't think we can have democracies that work where most of the people are not benefiting economically, where most of the people are worried about their job security. "
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" Bitcoin is successful only because of its potential for circumvention, lack of oversight. "
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" One can only hope that America, and other countries, will not need more natural persuasion before taking to heart the lessons of Hurricane Harvey. "
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" If stability and efficiency required that there existed markets that extended infinitely far into the future - and these markets clearly did not exist - what assurance do we have of the stability and efficiency of the capitalist system? "
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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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" An economy in which most citizens are doing worse year after year - an economy like America's - is not likely to do well over the long haul. "
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" Regulatory reform must move beyond limiting the damage that the financial sector can do and ensure that the sector genuinely serves society. "
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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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" In the end, the politics of the euro zone weren't strong enough to create a fully integrated fiscal union with a common banking system, etc. "
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" By taxing CO2, firms and households would have an incentive to retrofit for the world of the future. The tax would also provide firms with incentives to innovate in ways that reduce energy usage and emissions - giving them a dynamic competitive advantage. "
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" I think in part the reason is that seeing an economy that is, in many ways, quite different from the one grows up in, helps crystallize issues: in one's own environment, one takes too much for granted, without asking why things are the way they are. "
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" A single currency entails a fixed interest rate, which means countries can't manage their own currency to suit their own needs. You need a variety of institutions to help nations for which the policies aren't well suited. Europe introduced the euro without providing those structures. "
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" Behind Trump's promise to 'make America great again' lie many fallacies. The most important fallacy is that America's place in the world can be restored to the one it occupied after World War II, when Europe was still recovering from vast devastation and most developing countries were still European colonies. It can't be. "
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" Tax policy should reflect a country's values and address its problems. "
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" My research in this period centered around growth, technical change, and income distribution, both how growth affected the distribution of income and how the distribution of income affected growth. "
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" Obama had to save the banks, sure, but he didn't have to save the bankers and the shareholders and the bondholders. We broke the rules of capitalism in order to save those at the top - as we always do. "
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" If Trump actually wants to help those who have been left behind, he must go beyond the ideological battles of the past. "
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" Certainly, the poverty, the discrimination, the episodic unemployment could not but strike an inquiring youngster: why did these exist, and what could we do about them. "
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" The euro zone was driven by the neoliberal view that markets are always efficient. That in itself is political. There was no pressing economic need that the euro was required to solve, but leaders believed that it would foster growth. "
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" I recognized that information was, in many respects, like a public good, and it was this insight that made it clear to me that it was unlikely that the private market would provide efficient resource allocations whenever information was endogenous. "
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" Growth is not an objective in itself; we should be concerned with standards of living. "
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" The Paris climate agreement may be a harbinger of the spirit and mindset needed to sustain genuine global cooperation. "
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" President Trump sees the world in transactional and zero-sum terms - if something is good for China, it must be bad for the U.S. By contrast, economists see the world in much more nuanced ways: if globalization is well-managed, it can be a positive-sum game, where both the U.S. and China gain; if it is badly managed, it can be negative-sum. "
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" After the destruction of New Orleans by Hurricane Katrina in 2005, the shutdown of much of New York City by Sandy in 2012, and now the devastation wrought on Texas by Harvey, the U.S. can and should do better. "
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" The U.S. basically wrote the rules and created the institutions of globalisation. "
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" When you're in government, you have a big impact in Washington, but Washington may not be doing very much. "
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" Too many countries of the former Soviet bloc remain under the control of authoritarian leaders, including some, like the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, who have learned how to maintain a more convincing facade of elections than their communist predecessors. "
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" Amherst was pivotal in my broad intellectual development; MIT in my development as a professional economist. "
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" Trump sees the world in terms of a zero-sum game. In reality, globalisation, if well managed, is a positive-sum force: America gains if its friends and allies - whether Australia, the E.U., or Mexico - are stronger. But Trump's approach threatens to turn it into a negative-sum game: America will lose, too. "
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