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"While I am interested both in economics and in philosophy, the union of my interests in the two fields far exceeds their intersection."
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"CAPITALISM: If everything worked without need of repair, upgrade or replacement, then peaceful minds and prosperity would prevail among the masses rather than just the few who control markets."
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"Bling" is not an indication of riches. It is a product of value-based spending, to enrich the pockets of those outside of ones sphere of influence...the haves' bleeding the have-nots'."
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"So far, therefore, as the science of exchange relates to the advantage of one of the exchanging persons only, it is founded on the ignorance or incapacity of the opposite person. . . . It is therefore a science founded on nescience. . . . This science, alone of sciences, must, by all available means, promulgate and prolong its opposite nescience. . . . It is therefore peculiarly and alone science of darkness."
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"It seems only easier when money is involved."
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"The economy in Ireland has been rampaging ahead for the last 15 years. Barring an international, political or natural catastrophe, things can only get better for the Irish."
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"We aren't leveraging this great economic engine, the strongest economy in the world. And yet we have this totally weak response. We import $500 billion a year more in products than we export."
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"A farmer is a magician who produces money from the mud."
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"An economy growing at 7 percent per year, can and must find the resources to improve the lives of its millions of poor."
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"While I am interested both in economics and in philosophy, the union of my interests in the two fields far exceeds their intersection."
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"You can't tax business. Business doesn't pay taxes. It collects taxes."
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"It is also very engaging - and a delight - to go back to Bangladesh as often as I can, which is not only my old home, but also where some of my closest friends and collaborators live and work."
Friendship
"While I am interested both in economics and in philosophy, the union of my interests in the two fields far exceeds their intersection."
Economy
"From the mid-1970s, I also started work on the causation and prevention of famines."
Work
"The curriculum of the school did not neglect India's cultural, analytical and scientific heritage, but was very involved also with the rest of the world."
Education
"I left Delhi, in 1971, shortly after Collective Choice and Social Welfare was published in 1970."
Choice
"I have not had any serious non-academic job."
Job
"The student community of Presidency College was also politically most active."
College
"I was born in a University campus and seem to have lived all my life in one campus or another."
Life
"But the idea that I should be a teacher and a researcher of some sort did not vary over the years."
Creativity
"When the Nobel award came my way, it also gave me an opportunity to do something immediate and practical about my old obsessions, including literacy, basic health care and gender equity, aimed specifically at India and Bangladesh."
Health
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