Abhijit Banerjee Quotes

Abhijit Banerjee
Abhijit Banerjee
American Economist
Born: Feb 21, 1961
People Think Will Work World You
I am no Rushdie. The only people who think of silencing me are my students, on days when my lectures are more opaque than usual. Abhijit Banerjee
Me People I Am Think Silencing More Only Opaque Students Days Am Lectures Than Who Usual
I have always found it difficult to wrap my head around population policies. Abhijit Banerjee
Difficult Wrap Head Policies Around Always Population Found
To insist that no one can support the interests of the aam aadmi without being one himself is like saying that no man can support women's rights. Abhijit Banerjee
Saying Man Rights Women Insist No-One Support Like Himself Without Being Interests
Well-designed subsidies help the poor make the best of whatever opportunities they have; poorly designed ones either do very little or actually make things worse for them. Abhijit Banerjee
Best Opportunities Whatever Worse Make Very Subsidies Either Little Them Poor Poorly Help Actually Things Designed
The first time I went to the Planning Commission was when it was under KC Pant, a long time ago. Since then I have been back there many, many times to the point where the many people who seem to spend their lives sitting outside the various offices and even the patches of grime in the hallways and stairwells began to look familiar. Abhijit Banerjee
Time People Long Long Time First Back Spend Seem Various Point Outside Long Time Ago Since Look First Time Been Began Familiar Times Patches Commission Offices Sitting Where Then Planning Who Many Even Lives
If you want to leave move money in the hands of poor people, you cannot do it through personal income tax cuts. You have to just give them money. Abhijit Banerjee
You People Money Give Through Leave Hands Personal Move Just Tax Want Tax Cuts Cannot Them Poor Poor People Cuts Income Income Tax
Milk production is one of India's great success stories. Abhijit Banerjee
Success Great India Great Success Stories Success Stories Production Milk
Franklin Delano Roosevelt eventually became the greatest liberal leader of 20th century United States, but he started as a fiscal conservative. His greatness is founded in his willingness to change his mind to save his country from the Great Depression. Abhijit Banerjee
Depression Great Change Conservative Mind Leader Country Liberal Great Depression States Franklin Willingness He 20th Century Became Greatest Fiscal His Greatness Century Roosevelt United Eventually United States Founded Started Save
We might think we are very different from Pakistan but we are not; we are the same people, with the same capacity for warmth and passion and intolerance and violence. Abhijit Banerjee
People Passion Think Intolerance Very Same Different Might Capacity Warmth Pakistan Violence
We need to learn to work with political systems that are not perfect instead of taking the view: let's first fix the politics, then we'll fix the rest. Abhijit Banerjee
Work Politics Political Not Perfect Rest First Systems Perfect Instead Taking Learn Fix Political Systems Then View Need
Public conversations about who we are and who we want to be are key to the vitality of our democracy, and leaders can seed those conversations when they speak out their own views. Abhijit Banerjee
Democracy Speak Key Own Our Those Out Seed Vitality About Leaders Want Conversations Public Views Who
Mass protests often get books or films banned, but very few people take to the streets to challenge the right of the State to decide what we can read or watch - it's still someone else's problem. Abhijit Banerjee
People Problem Challenge Few Films Else State Books Someone Take Mass Read Protests Still Very Get Few People Often Banned Decide Right Streets Watch
If PM-Kisan is implemented well, it will leave some money in the hands of poor farmers. Abhijit Banerjee
Money Will Some Implemented Well Leave Hands Poor Farmers
Every nation necessarily inhabits a morally compromised space. All too often our ideals seem to be held to ransom by what we believe, rightly or wrongly, to be objective reality. Abhijit Banerjee
Reality Space Nation Believe Every Too Our Rightly Objective Seem Morally Compromised Ideals Wrongly Often Held Necessarily Every Nation
So, I went to Harvard and I got exposed to American work habits. I didn't even realise for a while that I was behind. I kind of had the illusion that I was understanding things. But people worked so hard and the thing I learnt first in America was that people work incredibly hard. Abhijit Banerjee
Work People Illusion First Understanding Incredibly Harvard Kind Habits Had Got Learnt America American Behind Realise While Worked Hard Exposed Even Thing Things
In a world where audiences listen for attitudes rather than arguments or information, speakers must feel the pressure to posture rather than engage. Abhijit Banerjee
World Pressure Argument Must Posture Rather Feel Attitudes Audiences Than Listen Where Information Engage Speakers
Will we make all poverty history? No. But can we solve some of these extreme and egregious forms of poverty? I think yes, and we should. Abhijit Banerjee
History Will Poverty Think Extreme I Think Solve Some Make Yes Forms Should
Anyone who has a child knows the importance of not over-playing your hand. He was up all night playing some game on his smartphone and you feel like saying that if it happens again the phone is gone. Forever. Till he is old enough to buy his own. Till then he can have your old Nokia. Abhijit Banerjee
Buy Saying You Game Phone Old Own Gone Enough All Night Some He Feel Like Importance Knows Till His Hand Up Forever Child Anyone Happens Again Old Enough Then Your Who Playing Night
The tragedy of the UPA is not that it didn't do anything, but that it is not able to take credit for what it has done. By staying silent when it should have been shouting from the rooftop and by protecting the guilty, it surrendered the governance agenda to AAP. Abhijit Banerjee
Guilty Silent Able Staying Take Protecting Governance Been Tragedy Done Anything Agenda Should Shouting Credit
The problem of getting from home to the metro, BRT or bus stop makes many people take their cars to work. Why not start a fleet of electric buses that just circle through neighbourhoods connecting them to the various public transport hubs? Abhijit Banerjee
Work Home People Problem Car Circle Various Through Take Makes Metro Getting Just Stop Public Bus Buses Them Fleet Electric Transport Connecting Many Why Why Not Start
One advantage of not being in power is that we can dream of reshaping the world exactly as we please. Abhijit Banerjee
World Power Please Dream Exactly Advantage Being
We will remember UPA 2, if at all, it seems, as that period when things went mysteriously wrong - for the bribe-taking, buck-passing, foot-dragging, and general sense of paralysis. Abhijit Banerjee
Remember Will Sense Paralysis Seems General General Sense Wrong Period Things
Even Milton Friedman - doyen of radical free market thought - was willing to consider some government intervention into primary education on the grounds that it is unfair for children to not get a chance in life because they were born to poor parents. Abhijit Banerjee
Life Education Government Thought Free Parents Unfair Radical Intervention Consider Market Willing Some Born Free Market Primary Because Were Get Children Poor Grounds Even Chance Milton
If people don't want blue-collar work, our labour costs will remain high and our competitiveness low. Abhijit Banerjee
Work People Will Our High Costs Remain Labour Blue-Collar Want Low Competitiveness
My sense of my own superiority over many of my classmates would have been much more muted if I knew that they had seen me failing miserably at woodwork or cross-stitch. Abhijit Banerjee
Me Seen Own Sense Would Muted Superiority Classmates My Own More Had Knew Failing Over Been Woodwork Much Many
In my own work, I have written about how our public sector bank officials avoid making any new lending decisions - because lending always exposes them to some (infinitesimal) risk of being blamed for the loan going wrong. Abhijit Banerjee
Work Loan Own Our Sector Some About My Own Risk Blamed Written Wrong New Because Always How Making Officials Any Going Bank Being Decisions Lending Public Them Avoid Public Sector
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