Dani Rodrik Quotes

#1. When economists get it right, the world gets better.

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#2. policy discussion usually means pitting one model against another. Viewpoints and policy prescriptions that aren't backed by a model typically don't have standing.

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#3. Time heals all things but one: Time.

Cynthia Ozick

#4. Curing cancer affects good cells too in the short run but makes a life flourish in the long term. Curing corruption affects good people too in the short run but makes a nation flourish in the long term.

Vikrmn

#5. Today we bury his remains in the earth as a seed of immortality. Our hearts are full of sadness, yet at the same time of joyful hope and profound gratitude.

Pope Benedict XVI

#6. When the sound of victorious guns burst over London at 11 a.m. on November 11th, 1918, the men and women who looked incredulously into each other's faces did not cry jubilantly: " We've won the war! " They only said: " The War is over.

Vera Brittain

#7. The correct answer to almost any question in economics is: It depends.

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#8. I'm home. Ya happy now?' Beck's gravelly voice demanded. 'Yes, I am.' 'Yer' treatin' me like i'm some idiot kid,' he complained. 'Gee, I wonder where I learned that?' He hung up on her.

Jana Oliver

#9. Galen's Prophecy,

Susan Cain

#10. What determines success in industrial policy is not the ability to pick winners but the capacity to let the losers go.

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#11. He liked having the boy there beside him. Like some bright flame of life still burning bright beside the spent lamp of his own spirit.

Paul Kearney

#12. Europe has always represented a major strategic opportunity to achieve our goal of creating and building an enduring global brand.

Howard Schultz

#13. But there was no place like this in the world. Not so serene. So loved by its people and its rulers. The

Sarah J. Maas

#14. Genuine wisdom has two major conditions: you cannot teach it, and you cannot make someone learn it.

Raheel Farooq

#15. The world is better served by syncretic economists and policymakers who can hold multiple ideas in their heads than by 'one-handed' economists who promote one big idea regardless of context.

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#16. The economics we need is of the "seminar room" variety, not the "rule-of-thumb" kind. It is an economics that recognizes its limitations and caveats and knows that the right message depends on the context. The fine print is what economists have to contribute.

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#17. when a consensus forms around the universal applicability of a conclusion from a specific model, the critical assumptions of which are likely to be violated in many settings - as with perfect competition, say, or full consumer information - we have a problem.

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#18. These results stand in sharp contrast to the hype that microfinance has attracted in development policy circles. They throw cold water on models that suggest lack of access to finance is among the most important constraints that poor households face.

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#19. Field experiments to date have shown that microfinance - the provision of small loans, typically to women or groups of women - is not particularly effective in reducing poverty.14

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#20. An economists' consensus is perhaps more a rarity than a regularity. But when it happens, we need to pause and take stock.

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#21. To be honest, prestige is probably the last thing I focus on.

Toby Emmerich

#22. Meryl Streep is not here tonight. She has the flu - and I hear she's amazing in it.

Amy Poehler

#23. Why should we allow international markets to erode domestic labor regulations through the back door when we do not allow domestic markets to do the same? The

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#24. If economics were only about profit maximization, it would be just another name for business administration. It is a social discipline, and society has other means of cost accounting besides market prices.

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#25. I know it sounds stupid, but we're just playing. We're playing hard, but we're just playing.

Darcy Tucker

#26. When globalization collides with domestic politics, the smart money bets on politics.

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