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Ian McEwan
“I love John le Carré. I think I’ve read probably every one of his novels. I like Ian McEwan a lot.”
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Dani Rodrik
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other / likes
John le Carré
“I love John le Carré. I think I’ve read probably every one of his novels. I like Ian McEwan a lot.”
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Purity
“I’m reading Jonathan Franzen’s book, Purity, right now, which I enjoy. He draws you in.”
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What Dani said.
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01 / belief
I think that when you look at what’s happening, on the one hand, in Brazil it shocks you that there is all this widespread corruption with Petrobras that seems to go all the way up.
“I think that when you look at what’s happening, on the one hand, in Brazil it shocks you that there is all this widespread corruption with Petrobras that seems to go all the way up.”
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02 / belief
There’s the stock market, which is a tiny, tiny part of the Chinese economy. It pales, I think, in comparison to those bigger issues.
“There’s the stock market, which is a tiny, tiny part of the Chinese economy. It pales, I think, in comparison to those bigger issues.”
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03 / belief
I think managing these kinds of tensions, especially when you’re in a sort of open economy and the markets are being flooded by cheap consumer goods from elsewhere, managing these transitions are very difficult, especially since these countries, and Africa, of course, particularly so, are torn apart by a number of additional cleavages of ethnic, language, regional, tribal, and so forth.
“I think managing these kinds of tensions, especially when you’re in a sort of open economy and the markets are being flooded by cheap consumer goods from elsewhere, managing these transitions are very difficult, especially since these countries, and Africa, of course, particularly so, are torn apart by a number of additional cleavages of ethnic, language, regional, tribal, and so forth.”
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04 / belief
I think the Kurdish nationalists are, in Turkey at least, are very clear-sighted in understanding that full independence is neither in their interests nor something that they are likely to get.
“I think the Kurdish nationalists are, in Turkey at least, are very clear-sighted in understanding that full independence is neither in their interests nor something that they are likely to get.”
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05 / belief
I think there was a possibility that the Turkish government would have reached a modus vivendi with the Kurds and some kind of resolution in the same way that the Basque problem in Spain was resolved.
“I think there was a possibility that the Turkish government would have reached a modus vivendi with the Kurds and some kind of resolution in the same way that the Basque problem in Spain was resolved.”
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06 / belief
I think that there was a run up in the stock market and then they were, they did a bunch of things to try to prop the bubble, and eventually they did, and maybe it went a little bit too far.
“I think that there was a run up in the stock market and then they were, they did a bunch of things to try to prop the bubble, and eventually they did, and maybe it went a little bit too far.”
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07 / belief
I think to some extent, these things can be important as public relations, as PR for it.
“I think to some extent, these things can be important as public relations, as PR for it.”
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08 / belief
I think a lot of what’s wrong in economics is that it’s so much driven by people who first do engineering or math before they go into economics.
“I think a lot of what’s wrong in economics is that it’s so much driven by people who first do engineering or math before they go into economics.”
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09 / belief
I think that in a thriving European Union, hopefully, if we get there, that basically a lot of regions can do a lot more things than they can do on their own.
“I think that in a thriving European Union, hopefully, if we get there, that basically a lot of regions can do a lot more things than they can do on their own.”
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10 / belief
I think having the Netherlands in the North and Britain to the West, I think both the competition, the benchmarking, and the ideas, I think in that way geography made a difference.
“I think having the Netherlands in the North and Britain to the West, I think both the competition, the benchmarking, and the ideas, I think in that way geography made a difference.”
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11 / belief
I think the fact that they’re dealing with this and are going to have it behind them five years from now, eventually, it’s going to put them .
“I think the fact that they’re dealing with this and are going to have it behind them five years from now, eventually, it’s going to put them .”
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