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" To someone like me, who has watched trade negotiations closely for more than a quarter-century, it is clear that U.S. trade negotiators got most of what they wanted. The problem was with what they wanted. Their agenda was set, behind closed doors, by corporations. "

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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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" There's a long list of investments that governments could and should be making. There is strengthening infrastructure, such as transport and communications; there is investment in education; there is investment in families, particularly putting measures in place that free women from having to make the choice between raising a family and work. "

" When markets fail, as they often do, collective action becomes imperative. "

" Tax policy should reflect a country's values and address its problems. "

" One of the arguments I make for the failure of the euro is that, at the time it was being constructed, there was a 'neo-liberal' ideology which said that all we need to do to make this thing work is to get deficits low, keep inflation low, and take down barriers, and then everything would be fine. "

" If there is a silver lining in the Trump cloud, it is a new sense of solidarity over core values such as tolerance and equality, sustained by awareness of the bigotry and misogyny, whether hidden or open, that Trump and his team embody. "

" But while I loved all of these courses, there was an irresistible attraction of economics. "

" Having excessive power in the hands of one country meant the fate of the world was too dependent on what happened in that one country. "

" The Paris climate agreement may be a harbinger of the spirit and mindset needed to sustain genuine global cooperation. "

" 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. "

" Trump has been criticized by mainstream Republicans for not really being one of them. But he is definitely one of them when it comes to the central palliative for any ill befalling the country: a tax cut for the rich. "

" One of the things that happens when you have austerity is that wages get lower, and some people think lower wages in the short run can increase corporate profits. "

" 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. "

" Globalization and trade liberalization were supposed to make us all better off through the mechanism of trickle-down economics. What we seemed to be seeing instead was trickle-up economics, accompanied by a destruction of democratic politics, as we moved ever closer to a system of 'one dollar, one vote' as opposed to 'one person, one vote.' "

" America and the world are paying a high price for devotion to the extreme anti-government ideology embraced by Donald Trump and his Republican party. "

" Some people say we have this inequality because some people have been contributing much more to our society, and so it's fair that they get more. But then you look at the people who are at the top, and you realize they're not the people who have transformed our economy, our society. "

" If I came home with a grade of A, my father would say, 'There must have been a lot of dummies in that class.' "

" Ensuring preschool education for all and investing more in public schools is essential if the U.S. is to avoid becoming a neo-feudal country where advantages and disadvantages are passed on from one generation to the next. "

" The U.S. basically wrote the rules and created the institutions of globalisation. "

" We share a common planet, and the world has learned the hard way that we have to get along and work together. We have learned, too, that cooperation can benefit all. "

" A lot of my book, 'The Price of Inequality,' is about why there has been an increase in rent-seeking. "

" The diminishing economic role of the United States in the global economy means that global political power will also become more dispersed. The world will become multipolar. By clumsily re-asserting a wish for U.S. dominance, Donald Trump is accelerating the opposite. "

" I'm enough of a political junkie to know if you have large numbers of people much worse off, you're going to have consequences. "

" The IP standards advanced countries favour typically are designed not to maximise innovation and scientific progress, but to maximise the profits of big pharmaceutical companies and others able to sway trade negotiations. "

" With my kids, I'm a little sappier than my father may have been. "

" 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. "