How do we give credible hope to the billion poorest people in the world? It requires compassion to get ourselves started, and enlightened self-interest to get serious... If economic divergence continues, combined with global integration, it will build a nightmare for our children.

How do we give credible hope to the billion poorest people in the world? It requires compassion to get ourselves started, and enlightened self-interest to get serious... If economic divergence continues, combined with global integration, it will build a nightmare for our children.

Most conduct is guided by norms rather than by laws. Norms are voluntary and are effective because they are enforced by peer pressure.

Migration has been politicized before it has been analyzed.

Elections determine who is in power, but they do not determine how power is used.

Change in the societies at the very bottom must come predominantly from within; we cannot impose it on them.

Politicians would only move beyond gestures once there was a critical mass of informed citizens.