Change Quote by Duncan Green

We should look at how "the enemy" - people that you wouldn't necessarily agree with - have done change and see whether there's bits…

— Duncan Green

Some kinds of activists are more willing to try stuff out, see if works and think on their feet, but some of the people…

— Duncan Green

There's a diversion between economic reality - integration, global village, everybody depending on everybody else - and cultural reality, which is people feeling invaded,…

— Duncan Green

Often we're having an argument with something imaginary - a fixed idea of the "enemy" and the good. We need to get beyond that…

— Duncan Green

The magic formula is there is no magic formula.

— Duncan Green

To be effective at selling ideas, at being a lobbyist, influencing other people, you have to be very sure of yourself.

— Duncan Green

I sound like a church nut, but look at the role of the churches in the civil rights movement in the States. People are…

— Duncan Green

In any system, there will be change happening without you.

— Duncan Green

Lots of people in the open system are very determined to try and strengthen evidence-based policy.

— Duncan Green

If you were disabled in Russia, you had to re-register every year, and it took up to six months to re-register, so people who…

— Duncan Green

What you don't do is just say, "I've got all the ideas and all the knowledge, and listen to me."

— Duncan Green

Economists who studied in the '80s tend to have a pretty crude neoclassical view that's just about freeing up prices and markets, and then…

— Duncan Green