"People 'over-produce' pollution because they are not paying……" — Ha-Joon Chang
"People 'over-produce' pollution because they are not paying for the costs of dealing with it."
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51 Quotes by Ha-Joon Chang
Ha-Joon Chang has 51 quotes on this site.
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Equality of opportunity is meaningless for those who do not have the capabilities to take advantage of it.
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The higher education system in these countries (US, Korea etc) has become like a theatre in which some people decided…
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In manufacturing, where mechanization and the use of chemical processes are much easier, it is easier to raise productivity than…
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95 percent of economics is common sense made complicated, and even for the remaining 5 percent, the essential reasoning, if…
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[Good managers] know that people have 'good' sides and 'bad' sides and that the secret of good management is in…
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Self-interest, to be sure, is one of the most important, but we have many other motives - honesty, self-respect, altruism,…
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There is no such thing as a free market.
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To paraphrase Winston Churchill, capitalism is the worst economic system except for all the other forms.
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Rational thinking is an important aspect of human nature, but we have imagination, we have ambition, we have irrational fear,…
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The invention of the printing press was one of the most important events in human history.
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If we are really serious about preventing another crisis like the 2008 meltdown we should simply ban complex financial instruments,…
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Once you realize that trickle-down economics does not work, you will see the excessive tax cuts for the rick as…
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More Cost Quotes
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True heroism is remarkably sober, very undramatic. It is not the urge to surpass all others at whatever cost, but…
— Arthur Ashe
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Writers and books are cheap dates, especially when you compare the cost of a book with a ticket to the…
— Margaret Atwood
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I think I hate cynicism more than anything else. It's the curse of our age, and I want to avoid…
— Paul Auster
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The School Energy Crisis Relief Act authorizes the Secretary of Energy to issue energy assistance grants to help the poorest…
— Joe Baca
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There are plenty of good five cent cigars in the country. The trouble is they cost a quarter.
— Franklin P. Adams
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Posterity! You will never know how much it cost the present generation to preserve your freedom! I hope you will…
— John Adams
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For too long, our country's version of an energy policy has consisted of Americans waking up every day and wondering…
— Bob Beauprez
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The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a lot…
— Brendan Behan
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Every effort needs to be made to try and offset the costs of Katrina and Rita by reductions in other…
— Ben Bernanke
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Not all my shoes are designer. In terms of clothes, everything is on the same level for me. If I…
— Sophie Ellis Bextor
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Real estate is the key cost of physical retailers. That's why there's the old saw: location, location, location.
— Jeff Bezos
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On the Internet, companies are scale businesses, characterized by high fixed costs and relatively low variable costs. You can be…
— Jeff Bezos
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