53 Abhijit Banerjee Quotes for You to Enjoy

Abhijit Banerjee

American Economist

Born: Feb 21, 1961

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If democracy is to be an articulation of mutual respect, a leader in a democracy leads by showing respect to all. Abhijit Banerjee

Democracy Respect Leader Mutual Mutual Respect Leads Articulation Showing

The poverty line in the U.S., for example, has nothing to do with the poverty line in India. It is a relative poverty line. It is reset from time to time but it is related to U.S. median income, so if I set that to be the absolute poverty line everyone in India would essentially be poor. Abhijit Banerjee

Time Example Poverty Nothing Related Everyone Relative Would India Absolute Poverty Line For Example Line From Time To Time Essentially Poor Income Median Set

Jawaharlal Nehru did a huge amount for education in India. Abhijit Banerjee

Education India Huge Huge Amount Did Amount

Independence day is an interesting time to reflect on our strange fealty to institutions that the British left us, including those that were explicitly set up to be used against us. Abhijit Banerjee

There is nothing remotely dignified about sorting through rotting trash to find something to feed your child, or asking someone for money because you have none (anyone who has contrived to give people money before they had to ask will never forget the look of gratitude in their eyes). Abhijit Banerjee

Gratitude You Eyes People Money Will Before Nothing Dignified Find About Someone Give Something Through Never Had Never Forget Feed Remotely Look Sorting Because None Child Forget Contrived Anyone Ask Asking Your Your Child Who Trash Rotting

The Korean government is the first to declare that if you replace people with machines you have to pay a tax. It's a tax on robots. They make private companies internalise the social cost of unemployment. Social benefit is not the same as private benefit. We have to realise this. Abhijit Banerjee

One big mistake that we made in Delhi is that we made it a low-rise city which means that rich people have nice green colonies while the poor live in dusty areas. Abhijit Banerjee

Mistake People Made Big Rich Nice Live City Delhi Colonies Area Big Mistake Green Dusty Which While Poor Rich People Means

Healthcare expenses often wipe out families. Abhijit Banerjee

Out Wipe Healthcare Families Often Expenses

I was trained as an economic theorist; my job at MIT was as an economic theorist. At some level that's still part of my identity. Abhijit Banerjee

Job Some Economic Part Identity Still MIT Trained Theorist Level

What's nice about experiments is that they are much more closely tied to what theorists think about the world than normal empirical research. You can design your experiment to exactly ask the question you want to ask. This is not true about normal empirical research. Abhijit Banerjee

We've learned a huge amount from organisations like Seva Mandir and Pratham, for example. In my personal experience, these organisations work on a very large scale with very poor people. Abhijit Banerjee

Work Experience People Example Scale Like For Example Learned Huge Huge Amount Very Personal Personal Experience Poor Poor People Organisations Large Large-Scale Amount

Insurance is important for protecting the health of people and Ujjwala is quite useful to low-income women. Abhijit Banerjee

Health Women People Important Protecting Insurance Quite Low-Income Useful

The BJP must nurture the institutions that put credible checks and balances in place. Abhijit Banerjee

Nurture Must Put Checks Checks And Balances Institutions Balances Place Credible

It is undeniable that the looming environmental crisis is partly the consequence of population growth. Abhijit Banerjee

Environmental Crisis Undeniable Partly Looming Population Population Growth Growth Consequence

Corruption is a huge problem and the poor and the powerless are often its most egregious victims. But it is not an accident that the most effective bureaucracies in the world rely much more on internal controls rather than on independent ombudsmen. Abhijit Banerjee

Corruption Problem World Accident Independent Rather More Rely Most Powerless Effective Huge Than Often Controls Victims Poor Much Internal