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...the discipline of economics has yet to get over its childish passion for mathematics and for purely theoretical and often highly ideological…
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For far too long economists have sought to define themselves in terms of their supposedly scientific methods. In fact, those methods rely…
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Over a long period of time, the main force in favor of greater equality has been the diffusion of knowledge and skills.
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When the rate of return on capital exceeds the rate of growth of output and income, as it did in the nineteenth…
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What was the good of industrial development, what was the good of all the technological innovations, toil, and population movements if, after…
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Democracy will never be supplanted by a republic of experts—and that is a very good thing.
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Contrary to a tenacious myth, France is not owned by California pension funds or the Bank of China, any more than the…
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There is one great advantage to being an academic economist in France: here, economists are not highly respected in the academic and…
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Indeed, the distribution of wealth is too important an issue to be left to economists, sociologists, historians, and philosophers.
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I loved American universities. In many ways, they are better organized - certainly than French universities.
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Capitalism and market forces are very powerful in producing wealth and innovation. But we need to ensure that these forces act in…
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We want capitalism and market forces to be the slave of democracy rather than the opposite.
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Contrary to a tenacious myth, France is not owned by California pension funds or the Bank of China, any more than the…
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You don’t have to sleep with prostitutes or take drugs in order to have a relationship with organized crime. They affect our…
— Misha Glenny
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National Health? Socialized pension funds? State-controlled television? Search and seizure laws? Forfeiture laws? If we're not living in the Soviet Union of…
— Michael Moriarty
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The financial capital is being concentrated by corporations, institutional investors, and even our pension funds, and being reinvested in companies that repeat…
— Paul Hawken
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It's clear to me when you do private equity well, you're making companies more efficient and helping them grow and become more…
— David Rubenstein
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To the extent that people overpay as a result of the Libor manipulation, they should be able to get their money back.…
— Peter Welch
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Well British pension funds have not been investing the savings of British people in British infrastructure.
— George Osborne
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Imagine if the pension funds and endowments that own much of the equity in our financial services companies demanded that those companies…
— Eliot Spitzer
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The people who did the collateralized mortgage obligations, sold them to pension funds, then sold them short, then bought credit default swap…
— Ben Stein
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Retirement security is often compared to a three-legged stool supported by Social Security, employer-provided pension funds, and private savings.
— Sander Levin
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Bonds as an asset class will always be needed, and not just by insurance companies and pension funds but by aging boomers.
— Bill Gross
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