Justice Quotes

What is fair? What is right? Voices from history weigh in on the most fundamental human question.

27299 quotes

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"Innovation without inclusion is just extraction."
Susan Athey
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"Markets work best when all participants have access to the same information."
Eric Maskin
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"Fair outcomes require fair processes."
Eric Maskin
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"Economic inequality often stems from information asymmetries."
Eric Maskin
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"Efficiency and equity need not be in conflict with proper design."
Eric Maskin
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"Just outcomes require just mechanisms."
Eric Maskin
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"Economics provides a framework for thinking about fairness."
Eric Maskin
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"Every mechanism has winners and losers; that's why design matters."
Eric Maskin
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"Fairness in outcomes begins with fairness in process."
Eric Maskin
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"Fiscal policy is ultimately about choices: who benefits, who bears the cost, and what kind of society we want to build."
Stefania Albanesi
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"Innovation without equity is just another form of exclusion."
Stefania Albanesi
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"Economic policy is ultimately moral policy dressed in technical language."
Stefania Albanesi
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"Comparative advantage explains why trade occurs, but doesn't address who gains and who loses."
Stefania Albanesi
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"Inflation hits hardest those with the least ability to absorb it."
Stefania Albanesi
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"Property rights are foundational, but the question of who gets to have property in the first place matters enormously."
Stefania Albanesi
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"Income inequality has grown; opportunity inequality has grown faster."
Stefania Albanesi
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"Economic justice requires not just redistribution but transformation of how wealth is generated."
Stefania Albanesi
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"Economic justice is possible only if we see economics as a moral question, not merely a technical one."
Stefania Albanesi
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"Corporate governance fails when those in power forget they serve stakeholders, not themselves."
Jean Tirole
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"Competition works best when it competes fairly."
Jean Tirole
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"Efficiency without equity breeds resentment and instability."
Jean Tirole
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"The purpose of competition policy is to protect competition, not competitors."
Jean Tirole
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"Power without accountability is the oldest corruption."
Jean Tirole
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"Those who profit from information must bear the cost of its concealment."
Jean Tirole
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"Economic justice requires not equality of outcomes, but fairness of opportunity."
Jean Tirole
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"Competition creates efficiency only when rules prevent predation."
Jean Tirole
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"Antitrust is not about size; it is about abuse of size."
Jean Tirole
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"We design systems for people with plenty and blame those without."
Sendhil Mullainathan
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"We design safety nets for people with stability and judge those without it."
Sendhil Mullainathan
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"We need systems that work for people under stress, not judgment of those experiencing it."
Sendhil Mullainathan