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"I recognized that information was, in many respects, like a public good, and it was this insight that made it clear to me that it was unlikely that the private market would provide efficient resource allocations whenever information was endogenous."
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"I was brought up to believe that the only thing worth doing was to add to the sum of accurate information in the world."
"If you're listening to a rock star in order to get your information on who to vote for, you're a bigger moron than they are."
"Video just accesses international information so much more readily."
"When we hear news we should always wait for the sacrament of confirmation."
"I did not go to military school. I had an option either a military school or a private school. I don't know how to get that out of the information that's out there."
"If you exchange information internationally, you must strengthen data protection. Those are two sides of the same coin."
"On the Northern Ireland question, for instance, the British and Irish governments prohibit media contact with members of the IRA, but we have always gone ahead, believing in the right to information."
"Although Customs and Border Protection analyzes cargo and other information to target specific shipments for closer inspection, it still physically inspects only a small fraction of the containers under its purview."
"Despite the administration's long public information campaign, for many months polls have consistently indicated only 37 percent of those eligible for Medicare say they only partially understand the program."
"An objection is not a rejection; it is simply a request for more information."
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"Amherst is a liberal arts college, committed to providing students with a broad education."
"I, like many members of my generation, was concerned with segregation and the repeated violation of civil rights."
"Amherst was pivotal in my broad intellectual development; MIT in my development as a professional economist."
"The notion that every well educated person would have a mastery of at least the basic elements of the humanities, sciences, and social sciences is a far cry from the specialized education that most students today receive, particularly in the research universities."
"But individuals and firms spend an enormous amount of resources acquiring information, which affects their beliefs; and actions of others too affect their beliefs."
"The extra curricular activity in which I was most engaged - debating - helped shape my interests in public policy."
"In debate, one randomly was assigned to one side or the other. This had at least one virtue - it made one see that there was more than one side to these complex issues."
"I went to public schools, and while Gary was, like most American cities, racially segregated, it was at least socially integrated - a cross section of children from families of all walks of life."
"As I noted in my Nobel lecture, an early insight in my work on the economics of information concerned the problem of appropriability - the difficulty that those who pay for information have in getting returns."
"I knew that discrimination existed, even though there were many individuals who were not prejudiced."
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