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I don't want to make public statements about issues that I have not studied in detail.


When a bank calls in a loan, it obviously hurts the customer in question. But it also adversely affects other banks that have lent to this borrower. They are now less likely to be repaid and so can't as readily lend to their own customers.


The market doesn't work very well when it comes to public goods.


Most policy makers embrace a religious-like belief that the market can and should solve every problem.


Markets work well with goods that economists call private goods.


In an industry with highly sequential innovation, it may be better for society to scrap patents altogether than try to tighten them.


I'm not a housing market expert, and I don't want to pretend to be one.


I was born in New York City but grew up across the Hudson River in Alpine, New Jersey.


I probably learned most at MIT by teaching and working with Peter Diamond, who acted like a big brother to me during my time in the department.


I have a strong attachment to Harvard.


I entered economics because of a course I took on 'information economics,' which I found fascinating.


Leo Hurwicz is the father of mechanism design theory and has inspired much of my work, and Roger Myerson is an old friend and collaborator and a tremendous economist.


Economic forecasting has actually got pretty good over the years, though admittedly, we don't always get it right.


Devising a mechanism is a lot like solving a puzzle - and gives you the same kind of kick.


A properly designed tax system can strike a balance between helping the poor and, at the same time, giving people the incentive to work.


I like to work on a number of things simultaneously. If you're working on a variety of projects and if you get stuck on one of them, you can move to another without grinding your gears indefinitely.


Many markets work best with little or no outside interference. But others - especially those subject to big 'externalities' - need a helping hand.


There is universal consensus among experts that the earth's atmosphere is heating up - and that we are responsible for it by putting carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. We also know that the consequences of global warming are catastrophic. But how do we make sure that all countries reduce greenhouse gases?


There are some things that we value as a public good that the markets can't deliver, like clean air.


I choose questions to work on according to how much they excite me.