[To organize a school] looks much more difficult in theory than it does in practice.

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.

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

Development requires major source of unfreedom: poverty as well as tyranny, poor economic opportunities as well as systematic social deprivation, neglect of public facilities as well as intolerance or overactivity of repressive states.

[N]o democracy with a free press has ever experienced a major famine.

The market economy succeeds not because some people's interests are suppressed and other people are kept out of the market, but because people gain individual advantage from it.