Quotes by Thomas Pogge

Thomas Pogge

Competing companies evolve toward efficiency as the more efficient ones profit and expand while those who fall behind fail. And companies being efficient and profiting under the Health Impact Fund, this is exactly what we want, because the company’s profit is directly driven by the health impact its registered products achieve.

Fall

Impact

Want

Countries compete in offering easy working conditions to their banks. In many jurisdictions, you can deposit money anonymously with no questions asked, even if the accepting bank knows that it derives from criminal activities.

Country

Criminals

Offering

Critical journalism has gone out of fashion, or rather, it has been bought out. And so, we have much less of it than we did during the Vietnam era, where there was very critical reporting on the Vietnam War and a lot of disagreement among the media. Now you find that the media are much more homogenous, converging because they all must cater to the same community of advertisers. It’s sad to see.

Fashion

Media

War

Domestic and supranational regulatory capture leads to two things: on the one hand, to an inequality spiral where the rich get richer because they can influence rulemaking and rule application in their favor; on the other hand, it also leads to instability. This is so because the relatively few organizations capable of influencing supranational rulemaking through the lobbying of major governments have diverse interests. This will, in some cases, lead to compromises. But it will also lead to spheres of influence.

Government

Hands

Organization

Drafts of domestic legislation must be published, debated and publicly voted on, which gives ample opportunities to civil society organizations and ordinary citizens to at least understand what’s being proposed and to voice and to organize opposition before the decision is made.

Opportunity

Organization

Voice

Economics is like a church, and it fulfills the same function the church had fulfilled for centuries: the justification of the status quo.

Century

Church

Economics

Feudalism is an economic system where a few people own all the land and the others have no option but to be serfs on such a feudal estate. We now condemn feudalism. We condemn not merely the feudal lords but we condemn the whole structure of rules that sustained feudalism. I am asking people to think similarly about the world economy.

Land

People

Thinking

Given the total income and wealth available in the world today, we could easily overcome poverty, which would require raising the share of the bottom half from three to roughly five percent. Unfortunately, the trend is going in the opposite direction.

Income

Opposites

Overcoming

I think one big improvement would be if we somehow made it cheaper and easier for developing countries to learn from the sad experience of some of the developed countries, and also from some of the positive experiences we have of building good transportation systems, like high-speed rail.

Country

Thinking

Would Be

If we offer a prize, so to speak, to anyone who manages to bring a country under his physical control – namely, that they can then sell the country’s resources and borrow in its name – then it’s not surprising that generals or guerrilla movements will want to compete for this prize. But that the prize is there is really not the fault of the insiders. It is the fault of the dominant states and of the system of international law they maintain.

Country

Law

Names

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Agreement

Average

Banking

Becoming

Book

Car

Century

Children

Church

Citizens

Commodity

Country

Criminals

Data

Decline

Design

Developing Countries

Economic

Economics

Example

Eye

Fall

Fashion

Focus

Frustration

Get Better

Giving

Government

Green

Groups

Hands

Humanity

Illegal Activities

Impact

Income

Innovation

Interesting

Land

Law

Levels

Loss

Matter

Mean

Media

Medicine

Names

Numbers

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Quotes by Thomas Pogge

Thomas Pogge

Countries compete in offering easy working conditions to their banks. In many jurisdictions, you can deposit money anonymously with no questions asked, even if the accepting bank knows that it derives from criminal activities.

Drafts of domestic legislation must be published, debated and publicly voted on, which gives ample opportunities to civil society organizations and ordinary citizens to at least understand what’s being proposed and to voice and to organize opposition before the decision is made.

Economics is like a church, and it fulfills the same function the church had fulfilled for centuries: the justification of the status quo.

Given the total income and wealth available in the world today, we could easily overcome poverty, which would require raising the share of the bottom half from three to roughly five percent. Unfortunately, the trend is going in the opposite direction.

I think one big improvement would be if we somehow made it cheaper and easier for developing countries to learn from the sad experience of some of the developed countries, and also from some of the positive experiences we have of building good transportation systems, like high-speed rail.

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