One of those disturbing tendencies in academic life is that there is a desire on the part of many in the name of open-mindedness to fall into a kind of relativistic denialism in which all positions are equally legitimate, all positions must be respected, and compromise must be entered into no matter what the starting point or reasonableness of the two parties.
Investment in girls' education may well be the highest-return investment available in the developing world. - Lawrence Summers
Investment in girls' education may well be the highest-return investment available in the developing world.
- Lawrence Summers
All taxes discourage something. Why not discourage bad things like pollution rather than good things like working? - Lawrence Summers
All taxes discourage something. Why not discourage bad things like pollution rather than good things like working?
The only antidote to dangerous ideas is strong alternatives vigorously advocated. - Lawrence Summers
The only antidote to dangerous ideas is strong alternatives vigorously advocated.
Deflation and secular stagnation are the risks of our time. - Lawrence Summers
Deflation and secular stagnation are the risks of our time.
Global capital markets pose the same kinds of problems that jet planes do. They are faster, more comfortable, and they get you where you are going be… - Lawrence Summers
Global capital markets pose the same kinds of problems that jet planes do. They are faster, more comfortable, and they get you where you are going be…
There are children who are working in textile businesses in Asia who would be prostitutes on the streets if they did not have those jobs - Lawrence Summers
There are children who are working in textile businesses in Asia who would be prostitutes on the streets if they did not have those jobs
The dramatic modernization of the Asian economies ranks alongside the Renaissance and the Industrial Revolution as one of the most important developm… - Lawrence Summers
The dramatic modernization of the Asian economies ranks alongside the Renaissance and the Industrial Revolution as one of the most important developm…
If you look at the history of the American capital market, there's probably no innovation more important than the idea of generally accepted accounta… - Lawrence Summers
If you look at the history of the American capital market, there's probably no innovation more important than the idea of generally accepted accounta…
A good rule of thumb for many things in life holds that things take longer to happen than you think they will, and then happen faster than you though… - Lawrence Summers
A good rule of thumb for many things in life holds that things take longer to happen than you think they will, and then happen faster than you though…
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