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" The Nobel Prize is not very important for the winners - they are usually pretty successful people already. But it is valuable as a way of drawing the public's attention to important work in economics. "

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" A contingent bailout policy - implicit or explicit - must be coupled with some regulation of what banks can and cannot do. For example, a ban on lending to uncreditworthy customers might well make sense. "

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" Leo Hurwicz is the father of mechanism design theory and has inspired much of my work, and Roger Myerson is an old friend and collaborator and a tremendous economist. "

" A properly designed tax system can strike a balance between helping the poor and, at the same time, giving people the incentive to work. "

" Of course, MIT was notable not just for its faculty but also for its students. And, facing such extremely bright kids as a rookie teacher was something like being thrown to the wolves. "

" The market is no god - it cannot solve every problem. "

" I'm not a housing market expert, and I don't want to pretend to be one. "

" Through meteorology, we know essentially how hurricanes form, even though we can't say where the next storm will arise. "

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" In an industry with highly sequential innovation, it may be better for society to scrap patents altogether than try to tighten them. "

" How do we ensure in the case of public goods that they are provided at all, and that they are provided at the right level, taking into account citizens' preferences? "

" Markets work well with goods that economists call private goods. "

" In various countries around the world, assets that had previously been in the hands of governments were sold off to the private sector in the hope that this would lead to a more efficient allocation, that these assets would be put to better use. "

" I probably learned most at MIT by teaching and working with Peter Diamond, who acted like a big brother to me during my time in the department. "

" Many markets work best with little or no outside interference. But others - especially those subject to big 'externalities' - need a helping hand. "

" The market doesn't work very well when it comes to public goods. "

" It wasn't that Harvard was deliberately trying to overwork me, but I think I had a tendency to take on more things out of enthusiasm than were good for me. "

" This may not be the most serious problem in the world, but it is a familiar one: How do you divide a piece of cake equally between two children and also make sure that each of them sees it as a fair division? "

" Most policy makers embrace a religious-like belief that the market can and should solve every problem. "

" I was born in New York City but grew up across the Hudson River in Alpine, New Jersey. "

" At Tenafly High, I was lucky to have some dedicated teachers; I'm especially indebted to my calculus instructor, Francis Piersa, who opened my eyes to the striking beauty of mathematics. "

" I think I have met nearly all the Laureates in Economics. Among the few I haven't met, I suppose I'd most like to meet Ronald Coase because of his legendary power to persuade his colleagues of the validity of the Coase Theorem. "

" I don't want to make public statements about issues that I have not studied in detail. "

" There are some things that we value as a public good that the markets can't deliver, like clean air. "

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" Because mechanism designers do not generally know which outcomes are optimal in advance, they have to proceed more indirectly than simply prescribing outcomes by fiat; in particular, the mechanisms designed must generate the information needed as they are executed. "

" Prediction is certainly a valuable goal in science, but not the only one. Explanation is also important, and there are plenty of sciences that do a lot of explaining and not much predicting. "

" Economic forecasting has actually got pretty good over the years, though admittedly, we don't always get it right. "

" Perhaps one day earthquakes, hurricanes and financial crashes will all be predictable. But we don't have to wait until then for seismology, meteorology and economics to become sciences; they already are. "

" If budget planning requires gathering information from people who may not always have the incentive to disclose that information, then the principles of mechanism design can definitely be of use in such planning. "

" The theory of mechanism design can be thought of as the 'engineering' side of economic theory. "

" I have a strong attachment to Harvard. "

" Devising a mechanism is a lot like solving a puzzle - and gives you the same kind of kick. "