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- Nov 07, 2020
My parents were not poor, I mean we were a very average middle-class family of academics, but my grandfather happened to have built house literally next to one of Kolkata's largest slum.
- Bengali
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am half Bengali and half Marathi.
- Boring Thing
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was a graduate student, I actually took a course in development economics and I thought it was the most boring thing in the world.
- Identity
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was trained as an economic theorist; my job at MIT was as an economic theorist. At some level that's still part of my identity.
- Think
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- Nov 07, 2020
What's nice about experiments is that they are much more closely tied to what theorists think about the world than normal empirical research. You can design your experiment to exactly ask the question you want to ask. This is not true about normal empirical research.
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Korean government is the first to declare that if you replace people with machines you have to pay a tax. It's a tax on robots. They make private companies internalise the social cost of unemployment. Social benefit is not the same as private benefit. We have to realise this.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
You don't boost growth by cutting taxes, you do that by giving money to people.
- Poverty
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- Nov 07, 2020
Will we make all poverty history? No. But can we solve some of these extreme and egregious forms of poverty? I think yes, and we should.
- Politics
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- Nov 07, 2020
We need to learn to work with political systems that are not perfect instead of taking the view: let's first fix the politics, then we'll fix the rest.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you happen to be mostly depressed about the state of your life, I don't know whether you feel like doing impulse control.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most economies have a fair amount of tax evasion, depending on how their data systems are.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Here is an entirely banal idea that I think has the potential to change the world: Take evidence seriously. Taking evidence seriously does not mean privileging numbers over all other forms of knowledge - theories, narratives, images. Nor does it mean the kind of radical skepticism that questions everything to the point where no action is possible.
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- Nov 07, 2020