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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the main arguments that I make in my new book, 'The Great Degeneration,' is that the rule of law in the U.S. is becoming the rule of lawyers.
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
I can't think of anything I would rather do with my money than buy my children the best possible education.
- Broader
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I was never a very convincing social conservative, and always avoided associating myself with that part of the broader conservative movement.
- Best
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- Nov 07, 2020
My fundamental tenets are concerned with freedom of the individual; the market isn't perfect, but it's the best available way of allocating resources.
- Half
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- Nov 07, 2020
The rise of the West is, quite simply, the pre-eminent historical phenomenon of the second half of the second millennium after Christ.
- Management
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think the rise of quantitative econometrics and a highly mathematical approach to risk management was the obverse of a decline in interest in financial history.
- Knowledge
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- Nov 07, 2020
Risk models are a substitute for historical knowledge, because they tend to work with just three years' worth of data. But three years is not a long time in financial history.
- Calculating
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- Nov 07, 2020
The great thing about behavioural psychology and economics is that they help us to see that there are actually pretty good reasons why human beings swing from greed to fear, and why we're not really calculating machines or utility-maximisers.
- Obama
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- Nov 07, 2020
President Obama's biggest weakness is weakness.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a financial historian, I was quite isolated in Oxford - British historians are supposed to write about kings - so the quality of intellectual life in my field is much higher at Harvard. The students work harder there.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I first came to Oxford, I struggled to feel comfortable in an Anglican, public school-dominated institution.
- England
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm over-industrious, so I don't feel quite such a deviant in America as I did in England.
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Civilisation is partly about restraining the male of the species from engaging in the violence of the hunter-gatherer period. But it doesn't take an awful lot to unleash it.
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- Nov 07, 2020
We historians are increasingly using experimental psychology to understand the way we act. It is becoming very clear that our ability to evaluate risk is hedged by all sorts of cognitive biases. It's a miracle that we get anything right.
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's not surprising so many people end up with credit-card debts. Saving for your retirement and buying a house are difficult things, and we don't educate people about them at all.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
Oral history is a recipe for complete misrepresentation because almost no one tells the truth, even when they intend to.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
Something that's seldom appreciated about me is that I am in sympathy with a great deal of what Marx wrote, except that I'm on the side of the bourgeoisie.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's all very well for us to sit here in the West with our high incomes and cushy lives, and say it's immoral to violate the sovereignty of another state. But if the effect of that is to bring people in that country economic and political freedom, to raise their standard of living, to increase their life expectancy, then don't rule it out.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
There aren't many people who really put their life on the line for human freedom.
- British Press
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- Nov 07, 2020
The British press has an insatiable appetite for making public things that should be private. It's a prurience that I've never understood.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
The whole point about historians is that we are really communing with the dead. It's very restful - because you read. There's some sociopathic problem that makes me prefer it to human interaction.
- Big Brother
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- Nov 07, 2020
I can't imagine having a conversation about 'Celebrity Big Brother' in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think that it is important to be gregarious, and that friendships are not just a leisure pursuit, that they are an integral part of what it is to be human, and one does better work if one has a circle of friends that is active.
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- Nov 07, 2020
The real point of me isn't that I'm good looking. It's that I'm clever. I've got a brain! I would rather be called a highly intelligent historian than a gorgeous pouting one.
- Poverty
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- Nov 07, 2020
The debate that I'm interested in having is with seriously smart people about how we design institutions in the 21st century that will genuinely address problems of poverty and educational underachievement.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020