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I went to public schools, and while Gary was, like most American cities, racially segregated, it was at least socially integrated - a cross section of children from families of all walks of life. (Joseph Stiglitz)
I went to Amherst because my brother had gone there before me, and he went there because his guidance counselor thought that we would do better there than at a large university like Harvard. View quote
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Amherst is a liberal arts college, committed to providing students with a broad education. View quote
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I, like many members of my generation, was concerned with segregation and the repeated violation of civil rights. View quote
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Amherst was pivotal in my broad intellectual development; MIT in my development as a professional economist. View quote
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The bank bailout should have been more focused on helping small and medium sized banks, on helping homeowners. I think the trade agreements are a disaster. View quote
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The diversity of Europe is its strength. But for a single currency to work, over a region with enormous economic and political diversity, is not easy. View quote
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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. View quote
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Americans like to say we're fighting for democracy, and yet young Americans have come to the view that democracy doesn't deliver. View quote
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There is something about the mindset of a scientist that is different - an awareness of uncertainty, modeling, proof. View quote
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The financial sector has so distorted salaries that physicists are getting drawn into the financial sector. All that has led to an undersupply of people committed to the public sector. (Joseph Stiglitz)
It is always better to tax bad things than good things. View quote
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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. View quote
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The laws of normal economics dictate that lower taxes combined with increased spending will lead to bigger deficits. View quote
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Technology has been advancing so fast that the number of jobs globally in manufacturing is declining. There is no way that Trump can bring significant numbers of manufacturing jobs back to the U.S. View quote
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Trump can bring jobs back, but they will be minimal-wage jobs, not the high-paying jobs of the 1950s. View quote
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Bitcoin is successful only because of its potential for circumvention, lack of oversight. View quote
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The U.S. basically wrote the rules and created the institutions of globalisation. View quote
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Society can't function without shared prosperity. View quote
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While it was an experiment to bring them together, nothing has divided Europe as much as the euro. View quote
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Globally, manufacturing jobs are on the decline, simply because productivity growth has outpaced growth in demand. (Joseph Stiglitz)
America under Trump has gone from being a world leader to an object of derision. View quote
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China, with its large emerging middle class, is among the big beneficiaries of globalization. View quote
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But while I loved all of these courses, there was an irresistible attraction of economics. View quote
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The Paris climate agreement may be a harbinger of the spirit and mindset needed to sustain genuine global cooperation. View quote
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