other / likes
Indian food
“[laughs] Far be it for me to say it has the best food, but I like Indian food.”
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“[laughs] Far be it for me to say it has the best food, but I like Indian food.”
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01 / belief
“I think what happens is, more than institutions is the political environment in which these institutions are created that matters.”
02 / belief
“The villages, by and large, are self-governing, have been self-governing for many, many decades. But I think what you really need is, over and above that, you need the funding that accumulates at the center, or the state level, to come down to the community level, so they can decide what kinds of irrigation projects, for example, that they need.”
03 / belief
“Carter’s not a popular president in the United States, but the kind of introspection that he did in public, I think, was useful for the rest of the world to know that the United States was actually morally on the right path.”
04 / belief
“I do think that increasing the notion of corporations as being a variety of fixed-claim holders and the shareholders of the residual claimants, which is what led Friedman to propose shareholder value maximization as a principle — I think that’s being challenged.”
05 / belief
“I think there is a reasonable . . . We found a balance. Every country has to find that balance between regional power and central power.”
06 / belief
“Amitav Ghosh has written a nice trilogy on immigration, which I think is very sensible and very interesting.”
07 / belief
“I would say that there are two big issues. One, of course, is the domination of industry after industry by a few firms.”
08 / belief
“I think we can find smoother ways of actually getting people to use new payment systems than just eliminating the money overnight.”
09 / belief
“I think the recapitalization of the banks and increasing the capital requirements was generally a good thing.”
10 / belief
“I would say that modern business operates in a mix of both arm’s-length contracts, as well as relationships that fill the gaps in these contracts.”
11 / belief
“I think that’s what we have a big debate about — whether US corporations are, in fact, managed better than corporations in other countries.”
12 / belief
“I think we need to keep exploring what’s really going on and trying to understand.”
13 / belief
“We have many of the same problems that we talk about in industrial countries — too few people educated at the levels that the economy needs. But that said, I would say there are very low-hanging fruit in India, which if we pluck, we can generate 9, 10 percent growth for the next 10, 15 years that would get us firmly into middle income.”
14 / belief
“I think you need both. Look, face to face in my class — when I look at a student and they’re not prepared, they feel a sense of embarrassment.”
15 / belief
“I think you have to worry about that. We might, if the local communities’ abilities to enact sort of zoning laws were not tempered in some way by the other two pillars that I talk about in the book, the state and markets.”
16 / belief
“I think that basically forces a bank to stay on the straight and narrow to the extent possible.”