A society can be Pareto optimal and still perfectly disgusting.

Globalization has enriched the world scientifically and culturally and benefited many people economically as well.

Anything that increases the voice of young women tends therefore to reduce the fertility rate.

Democracy is a universal value

A defeated argument that refuses to be obliterated can remain very alive.

Violence is fomented by the imposition of singular and belligerent identities on gullible people, championed by proficient artisans of terror.

There are Muslims of all kinds. The idea of closing them into a single identity is wrong.

No substantial famine has ever occurred in a democratic country - no matter how poor.

the identity of an individual is essentially a function of her choices, rather than the discovery of an immutable attribute

While I am interested both in economics and in philosophy, the union of my interests in the two fields far exceeds their intersection.

If jobs are important, education is important.

The lack of economic freedom could be a very major reason for loss of liberty, liberty of life.

Economic growth without investment in human development is unsustainable - and unethical.

Human life depends not only on income but also on social opportunities, [for example] what the state does for educating.

I think that so many of our abilities to do things depend on interaction with each other.

Human ordeals thrive on ignorance. To understand a problem with clarity is already half way towards solving it.

Economics, as it has emerged, can be made more productive by paying greater and more explicit attention to the ethical considerations that shape human behaviour and judgment.

Gender inequality is not one problem, it's a collection of problems.

Development cannot really be so centered only on those in power.