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Night
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Nov 07, 2020

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.

Best
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Nov 07, 2020

I didn't care for school much - it was very strict, corporal punishment in the form of the 'tawse' was common and unpredictable, and I was often afraid - but I believe that I did well enough; indeed, my mother always regretted that I had not stayed long enough to become the 'dux,' as the best pupil was called.

Me
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Nov 07, 2020

The educational highlights I remember were not in the classroom. My father spent a lot of time with me when he could. He taught me how to take square roots, a skill I have retained but do not use often, except to check that I still remember.

Dream
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Nov 07, 2020

When I was a boy living in Edinburgh in Scotland, especially in December, when the hours of daylight were few, and it was cold, and often wet, I used to dream of escaping to a tropical magic kingdom.

Great
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Nov 07, 2020

I have the great good fortune that one of my collaborators in work, Anne Case, is also my collaborator in life.

Nov 07, 2020

It's a murky world out there, and it's hard to figure things out sometimes.

Clarify
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Nov 07, 2020

The best moments are when, together with... you bring information, you bring data to bear in a way that helps illuminate something that you just don't really understand. Even if it doesn't completely clarify it, it just, you know, helps bring it together.

I Think
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Nov 07, 2020

I don't think income solely determines health. I think lots of other things determine health.

Mysterious
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Nov 07, 2020

There's this narrative that is entrenched in some of the professions that there's this mysterious thing called 'socioeconomic status' that is immutably correlated with health. And it isn't.

Nut
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Nov 07, 2020

I'm not a left-wing nut pushing for single-payer!

Nov 07, 2020

It's hard to know what's going to be replaced by technology tomorrow. It feels like we're all at risk. I feel only safe as an emeritus professor!

Me
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Nov 07, 2020

I think putting numbers together into a coherent framework always seemed to me to be what really matters.

Good
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Nov 07, 2020

A good theoretical account must explain all of the evidence that we see. If it doesn't work everywhere, we have no idea what we are talking about, and all is chaos.

Nov 07, 2020

I think inequality has gone past the point where it's helping us all get rich, and it's really becoming a serious threat.

Differences
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Nov 07, 2020

The World Bank adjusts its poverty estimates for differences in prices across countries, but it ignores differences in needs.

Fellow Citizens
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Nov 07, 2020

Trade, migration, and modern communications have given us networks of friends and associates in other countries. We owe them much, but the social contract with our fellow citizens at home brings unique rights and responsibilities that must sometimes take precedence, especially when they are as destitute as the world's poorest people.

Cooperation
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Nov 07, 2020

International cooperation is vital to keeping our globe safe, commerce flowing, and our planet habitable.

I Believe
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Nov 07, 2020

I believe, as do most people, that we have an obligation to assist the truly destitute.

Coexistence
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Nov 07, 2020

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.

Nov 07, 2020

You can find episodes like the flu epidemic or war times when mortality rates go up, but sustained increases in mortality for any major group in any society are really quite rare. It's an indication that something is very wrong.

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