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01 / evaluation
“” There is this arrogance in the North that I don’t think is fully justified, because many of the bad practices of the South have been imported to the North.”
02 / evaluation
“” Within two years, it unified — most of it. It was really a chance, but then, because this happened before there was a national spirit, it turned out it was basically an annexation of the South by North, in which the North imposed its laws to the South, and they were not good for the South.”
03 / evaluation
“The biggest problem of Italy is actually fertility, in my view, because we don’t have enough kids.”
04 / evaluation
“Why is that the case?” Obviously, because the market doesn’t work. If you don’t sort out the market, you can have some very talented people doing jobs that generally don’t require the talent, and you have, unfortunately, non‑talented people doing jobs that require a lot of talent.”
05 / evaluation
“Ironically, I don’t think we’re there anymore, but there was period in which venture capitalists were so much flooded with money that they had to dish out this money sufficiently fast, that they had to shell it out in big pieces. They were only financing more advanced companies, because they couldn’t find the time to actually shell it out in small pieces at a time.”
06 / evaluation
“I actually enjoyed, in my book, to pick a little bit on Robert Barro, because Robert Barro defends restrictions in basketball and baseball but not in everywhere else in the United States.”
07 / evaluation
“Most of them are the poorest undergrads, because they’re the ones that desperately need money, so generally art majors, not really representative of businesspeople.”
08 / evaluation
“Once you try to compete in the first league, when you try to be at the frontier of the technology, you need to have a relatively non‑corrupt government, a system where people pay taxes without too much tax evasion, but not too much taxes, because otherwise they don’t produce.”