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• ‟ 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.

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• ‟ 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.

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• ‟ 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.

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• ‟ I have learnt an enormous amount from talking to people on the ground.

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• ‟ If the BJP government, like the Congress party, had asked what were the numbers on the fraction of people under a particular income, would I have not told them the truth? I would have told them exactly. I would have been as willing.

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• ‟ 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.

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• ‟ 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.

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• ‟ I will confess that in general decisiveness worries me; it is often an excuse for being impatient with the details or insufficiently sensitive to other people's concerns.

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• ‟ If people don't want blue-collar work, our labour costs will remain high and our competitiveness low.

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