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Quotes from How to build a new society after the Covid 19 crisis — Ha-Joon Chang

born 1963 South Korea

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Every conventional wisdom in the neoliberal playbook has been... destroyed.

How to build a new society after the Covid 19 crisis (2020)

The US spends 17% of GDP on health care, compared to 8-12% in other advanced countries, and it has the worst health record in the rich world.

How to build a new society after the Covid 19 crisis (2020)

We have to keep pushing... otherwise the people in power are not going to do that.

How to build a new society after the Covid 19 crisis (2020)

Opportunity is literally what it is called... [I]f you don't make something out of it, it's not going to produce anything by itself.

How to build a new society after the Covid 19 crisis (2020)

Milton Friedman and Friedrich von Hayek were supportive of universal basic income.

How to build a new society after the Covid 19 crisis (2020)

I ...don't understand how, in the UK... US... Brazil, people think it is OK to have hundreds of people die every day, if not thousands.

How to build a new society after the Covid 19 crisis (2020)

What are so advanced about them... when they are willing to... let tens of thousands of people die so that... puffs can make more money.

How to build a new society after the Covid 19 crisis (2020)

American unemployment rate is nearly 30%. ...During the Great Depression the only other economic crisis comparable in scale... the highest unemployment rate in the US was in 1933... at 25%.

How to build a new society after the Covid 19 crisis (2020)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Ha-Joon Chang (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.