- Nov 07, 2020
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- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Globalisation, for me, seems to be not first-order harm, and I find it very hard not to think about the billion people who have been dragged out of poverty as a result.
- Matter
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's hard to think that Mark Zuckerberg is actually impoverishing anyone by getting rich with Facebook. But driverless cars are another matter entirely.
- Both
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- Nov 07, 2020
I both love inequality and am terrified of it.
- Numbers
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- Nov 07, 2020
A lot of our sources for income-inequality measures come from household surveys in which people report how much they earned in the last year, how much income they have, and so on. Those are not as well funded as they should be. We need to have those numbers.
- Knowledge
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- Nov 07, 2020
I argue that experiments have no special ability to produce more credible knowledge than other methods, and that actual experiments are frequently subject to practical problems that undermine any claims to statistical or epistemic superiority.
- Poverty
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- Nov 07, 2020
The absence of state capacity - that is, of the services and protections that people in rich countries take for granted - is one of the major causes of poverty and deprivation around the world.
- Growth
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- Nov 07, 2020
Without effective states working with active and involved citizens, there is little chance for the growth that is needed to abolish global poverty.
- Education
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- Nov 07, 2020
The very wealthy have little need for state-provided education or health care... They have even less reason to support health insurance for everyone or to worry about the low quality of public schools that plagues much of the country.
- OK
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- Nov 07, 2020
What is not OK is for rent-seekers to get rich.
- Capitalism
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- Nov 07, 2020
I, who do not believe in socialized health-care, would advocate a single-payment system... because it will get this monster that we've created out of the economy and allow the rest of capitalism to flourish without the awful things that healthcare is doing to us.
- Corruption
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- Nov 07, 2020
The key is to somehow find a way of tackling rent-seeking, crony capitalism, and corruption - legal and illegal - and build fairer, more equal society without compromising innovation or entrepreneurship.
- Help
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't think Brexit is going to help people in Britain.
- Europe
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- Nov 07, 2020