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" In Scotland, I was brought up to think of policemen as allies and to ask one for help when I needed it. "
Angus Deaton
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Scotland
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" Globalization and technical change are the guarantee of our future prosperity. And reversing on that will not only make things worse, but it will make things worse for a very large number of people around the world who have benefitted - people in China and India who have been dragged out of the most awful poverty. "
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" What is not OK is for rent-seekers to get rich. "
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" Although globalization and technological change have disrupted traditional work arrangements, both processes have the potential to benefit everyone. The fact that they have not suggests that the wealthy have captured the benefits for themselves. "
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" International cooperation is vital to keeping our globe safe, commerce flowing, and our planet habitable. "
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" I feel passionately about measurement - about how difficult it is, about how much theory and conceptualization is involved in measurement, and indeed, how much politics is involved. "
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" I've written about how mortality is a wonderful indicator of societal progress. "
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" The school in the Yorkshire mining village in which my father grew up in the 1920s and 1930s allowed only a few children to go to high school, and my father was not one of them. He spent much of his time as a young man repairing this deprivation, mostly at night school. "
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" Inequality is not the same thing as unfairness; and, to my mind, it is the latter that has incited so much political turmoil in the rich world today. "
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" As recognized since ancient times, the coexistence of very rich and very poor leads to two possibilities, neither a happy one. The rich can rule alone, disenfranchising or even enslaving the poor, or the poor can rise up and confiscate the wealth of the rich. "
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" Despite broad public support, raising the minimum wage is always difficult owing to the disproportionate influence that wealthy firms and donors have in Congress. "
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" The call to rein in globalization reflects a belief that it has eliminated jobs in the West, sending them East and South. But the biggest threat to traditional jobs is not Chinese or Mexican; it is a robot. "
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" Inequality is not so much a cause of economic, political, and social processes as a consequence. Some of these processes are good, some are bad, and some are very bad indeed. "
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" In the high-income English-speaking world, the elderly get treated very well indeed. "
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" The World Bank adjusts its poverty estimates for differences in prices across countries, but it ignores differences in needs. "
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" After a day's fishing, I'll know the solution to something or have good ideas that were not accessible before. "
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" Many people have mixed views about unions, but unions used to give people some measure of control at work. They gave them a social life and political representation in Washington, which doesn't really exist anymore. "
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" The first thing we need to understand when we think about globalization is that it has benefited an enormous number of people who are not part of the global elite. "
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" I'm not a left-wing nut pushing for single-payer! "
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" Foreign aid, especially when there is a lot of it, affects how institutions function and how they change. "
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" Without effective states working with active and involved citizens, there is little chance for the growth that is needed to abolish global poverty. "
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" Businesses have moved from doing business to doing lobbying, and I think that's a very bad thing. "
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" Broadly shared progress can be achieved with policies that are designed specifically to benefit consumers and workers. And such policies need not even include redistributive taxation, which many workers oppose. Rather, they can focus on ways to encourage competition and discourage rent-seeking. "
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" When citizens believe that the elite care more about those across the ocean than those across the train tracks, insurance has broken down, we divide into factions, and those who are left behind become angry and disillusioned with a politics that no longer serves them. "
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