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I believe, as do most people, that we have an obligation to assist the truly destitute.
I both love inequality and am terrified of it.
I didn't care for school much - it was very strict, corporal punishment in the form of the 'tawse' was common and unpredictable, and I was often afraid - but I believe that I did well enough; indeed, my mother always regretted that I had not stayed long enough to become the 'dux,' as the best pupil was called.
I do worry about a world in which the rich get to write the rules.
I don't think Brexit is going to help people in Britain.
I don't think equality is intrinsically valuable, meaning in and of itself. I'm not against inequality... if Bill Gates gets another hundred million dollars, it's no skin off my nose.
I don't think income solely determines health. I think lots of other things determine health.
I don't think that globalisation is anywhere near the threat that robots are.
I doubt that Donald Trump would be happier... if he was a different person. But Trump is always telling people how great his life is and about all the great things that he's done, and that's also all about his income. And that's also what we found. If you ask people how their lives are going, as a whole, it seems they tend to point to income.
I feel passionately about measurement - about how difficult it is, about how much theory and conceptualization is involved in measurement, and indeed, how much politics is involved.
I grew up pretty poor - not poor compared with people in India or Africa who are really poor, but poor enough so that the worry about money really cast a pall over your life a lot of the time.
I have the great good fortune that one of my collaborators in work, Anne Case, is also my collaborator in life.
I really don't think we've become a plutocracy, but I worry about the enormous influence that money has in a democracy such as ours.
I think inequality has gone past the point where it's helping us all get rich, and it's really becoming a serious threat.
I think lower wages have made men much less marriageable than they were before. It's not just like your job goes to hell. Your marriage goes to hell. You don't know your children anymore. Your children have a higher chance of being screwed up.
I think putting numbers together into a coherent framework always seemed to me to be what really matters.
I think there are a lot of policies that have been unfriendly to workers' wages.
I was born in Edinburgh, in Scotland, a few days after the end of the Second World War. Both my parents had left school at a very young age, unwillingly in my father's case. Yet both had deep effects on my education, my father influencing me toward measurement and mathematics, and my mother toward writing and history.
I'm not a left-wing nut pushing for single-payer!
I'm very keen that we have this debate about the good parts of inequality and the bad parts of inequality. It's not a one-sided thing.
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