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16 transcript-backed records
01 / belief
“I thought it was a brilliant system. I think I have this element that goes back to my Sicilian roots.”
02 / belief
“I think that probably we’re going a bit too much in a Southern direction. Take also Netflix.”
03 / belief
“Now, why I insist so much on this, because I think there is an analogy that most people don’t fully appreciate between the Italian unification and the European unification.”
04 / belief
“At the end of the day, you can’t scale these things up. I think that’s a huge problem.”
05 / belief
“I think that I thought that the so‑called bailout of Greece in 2010 was a disaster, was really a bailout of French and German banks covered with the pretense of helping Greece.”
06 / belief
“I think that an injection of democracy is what is most needed, and hopefully all the tension, will emerge.”
07 / belief
“I think that intellectual tradition of Chicago, Stigler, when he invented regulatory capture was borrowing from Marx.”
08 / belief
“I think that the ECB has been designed, basically, to have deflation. I don’t think they’re mentally prepared to out deal in this situation.”
09 / belief
“If I look at the data, I think that Muslim religion is not generally associated with good attitudes for capitalism.”
10 / belief
“I would have said Gordon Tullock had he not just passed away. I think he was really underrated for what he did.”
11 / belief
“Underrated, I think he’s fantastic. But the best movie ever is The Leopard done by him.”
12 / belief
“I think exactly one of the few cases. I never read a book first and then saw a movie that I thought the movie was the same level as the book.”
13 / belief
“I think that one thing that works well in university is that we spend a huge amount of time selecting faculty.”
14 / belief
“I think that your idea is extremely good to make the comparison, to see also which lobbies are winning the game.”
15 / belief
“Recreating a positive feeling toward Germany that was absent in Europe and taking, I think, the right approach.”
16 / belief
“In my view, he was an extremely insightful economist who made the point there is not enough money in politics in 1972, if I’m not mistaken, or ’74.”