Economics, As It Has Emerged, Can Be

There May Be Countries [where] There's No Gender Inequality In Schooling, Even In Higher Education, But [where There Is] Gender Inequality In High Business. Japan Is A Very Good Example Of That. You Might Find Cases In The United States Where At One Level Women's Equality Has Progressed Tremendously. You Don't Have The Kind Of Problem Of Higher Women's Mortality As You See In South Asia, North Africa, And East Asia, China, Too, And Yet For American Women There Are Some Fields In Which Equality Hasn't Yet Come.

The Market Economy Succeeds Not Because Some People's Interests Are Suppressed And Other People Are Kept Out Of The Market, But Because People Gain Individual Advantage From It.

Poverty Is A Big Barrier If You Are At The Bottom Layer Of Society, Don't Know Where The Next Meal Is Coming From. It Is Not A Big Barrier Of Taking The Rich With The Poor In A Big Society To Provide Schooling For All.

I Think The Whole Progress Over The Last Two Or Three Millennia Has Been Entirely Dependent On Ideas And Techniques And Commodities And People Moving From One Part Of The World To Another. It Seems Difficult To Take An Anti-globalization View If One Takes Globalization Properly In Its Full Sense.

I Guess Some Of The Most Delightful Moments Of My Teenage Years Were When I Was Trying Not Just To Educate Myself But Trying To Educate Others. And I Could See How The Lives Of Children Could Be Transformed In That.