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When I was growing up in South Korea in the '70s and early '80s, the country was too poor to buy original records. Everything was bootlegged.

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As a consumer, I don't create art, but I think whatever the message is, art has to touch you.

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As someone from a developing country, I have a problem with rich countries thinking they can tell us anything, simply because they are giving money.

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Why do tax havens exist? Because rich countries allow them to. If the U.S. came down on tax havens in the same way they come down on countries that trade with Iran and Cuba, we'd have no tax havens in the world.

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When we assess the impact of technological changes, we tend to downplay things that happened a while ago.

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By liberating women from household work and helping to abolish professions such as domestic service, the washing machine and other household goods completely revolutionised the structure of society.

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I'm not an anti-capitalist, or anarchist. I want capitalism to work.

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Democracy, despite its limitations, is in the end the only way to ensure that policies do not simply benefit the privileged few.

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Free market economists frequently see minimum wage legislation as mere political intervention. However, there are decent economic theories which show that, under certain circumstances, minimum wages can be beneficial, as it makes workers more productive.

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Economics should be defined in terms of what it is about. It should be about how people produce things, how people exchange them, how people earn income, how they pay taxes, how the government provides infrastructure with tax revenue, and how it conducts monetary policy. The subject has to be defined in terms of the object of inquiry.

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Biography

Nationality: South Korean

Type: Economist

Born: October 7th, 1963

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