We have the most crude accounting tools. It's tragic because our accounts and our national arithmetic doesn't tell us the things that we need to know.

If you cut down a forest, it doesn't matter how many sawmills you have if there are no more trees.

I think the market is always going to be around. The goal is not to say, let's get rid of the market, because the market does render a huge number of services, and I don't want to have a fight about the price of something every time I buy a book or a bottle of water.

What I worry about is climate change, because that would have untold effects that we can't even measure yet.

We have the most crude accounting tools. It's tragic because our accounts and our national arithmetic doesn't tell us the things that we need to know.

The World Bank is now the biggest culprit in the debt crisis.

Cost recovery is the polite way of saying, make families pay to educate their children.