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01 / evaluation
“I believe that in general, our international capital markets underperform their role of financing international flows.”
02 / evaluation
“About 25 years ago, I started looking more and more at my own work and how economic structure, geography, resource base, and so forth affected development.”
03 / evaluation
“The art of good economics, in my view, is trying to figure out what’s important, where, when, and in which context.”
04 / evaluation
“” Now you can carry this too far because the insane version of this, and the unbelievably destructive version of this, was Lenin and Stalin.”
05 / evaluation
“I worry very much about places like Chad, Niger, Central African Republic, Mali because they’re landlocked, they are in incredibly difficult physical geographic conditions, very dry, drying most likely, warming, massive disease burden, most of them with no easy natural resource base, too far from ports to do any kind of assembly operations.”
06 / evaluation
“We avoid that, I think, conceptually, because if you study anything too specific it’s out of date in 10 years.”
07 / evaluation
“Addressing a financial panic is a condition that needs to be addressed as its own pathology. That’s my view that if you approached it that way — because I remember arguing with Summers that weekend, and many weekends after that — approach it as unlocking the financial panic, not as the need for reaching a $1.”