Blaming speculators as a response to financial crisis goes back at least to the Greeks. It's almost always the wrong response.
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
The only antidote to dangerous ideas is strong alternatives vigorously advocated. - Lawrence Summers
The only antidote to dangerous ideas is strong alternatives vigorously advocated.
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?
Deflation and secular stagnation are the risks of our time. - Lawrence Summers
Deflation and secular stagnation are the risks of our time.
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
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…
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…
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…
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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