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01 / belief
“I would say a significant chunk of high-end inequality, that is, the percentage of total income that’s accounted for by the top 1% of earners, is due to bad policy.”
02 / belief
“I think insider influence and shenanigans flourish in the shadows, flourish in obscurity and regulatory policy making, relative to fiscal policy making, I think is much less transparent, much more obscure, much more arcane, much more difficult for anybody to know what’s going on.”
03 / belief
“I think a general concern with hygiene of the liberal state, and a sense that things are not all well, and that things get rotten very quickly, and unless you try very hard to push back, things get rotten very badly.”
04 / belief
“The fundamental fear that undergirds IP that unless we give people strong ownership and ideas, they’re not gonna come up with anything, I think is fundamentally belied by the Nordhaus estimate.”
05 / observation
“I don’t think anyone has completely, satisfactorily solved it. But I don’t think that’s the only way to answer the question that is, yes, you could infer from that, that there shouldn’t be much rent-seeking if the amount of money spent on it is so relatively trivial.”
06 / evaluation
“I don’t see any evidence that American corporations are more poorly run than other corporations because they pay their executives too much.”
07 / commitment
“I think there is something we can do about, ’cause there’s plenty of things we can do to make them better and we are physically able to do them.”
08 / evaluation
“Because they were so poor and backward, they had a lot of catch-up growth that they could grow faster than rich countries that must slug along expanding the technological frontier rather than borrowing good ideas from abroad and implementing them home.”
09 / prediction
“I think on the whole, kind of neolistic economic disruption of pulling out of NAFTA would be worse on people at the bottom because that’s what bad times usually do.”
10 / evaluation
“Although perhaps, maybe we have actually been… Because we haven’t had a nuclear war yet between two nuclear powers, we think that there is something uniquely stabilizing about having nuclear weapons that it produces this mad scenario where it chastens and disciplines policymakers.”