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The so-called skills gap is really a gap in education, and that affects all of us.

Perhaps concentrated wealth will inspire a nation of innovative problem-solvers. But if the view of many economists is right - that it sometimes discourages innovation - then we should worry.

From Adam Davidson

One of the great political and economic challenges of our time is figuring out the balance between wealth that benefits society and wealth that distorts.

From Adam Davidson

The America that I think most Americans would want, most economists on the right or left would want, is one in which a smart, ambitious, hardworking person without a huge amount of resources has a pretty good shot, in the end, of beating out a less smart, less ambitious, less hardworking rich person.

From Adam Davidson

The economy works best when better ideas win out over worse ideas, harder work wins out over less work, when it's a fair fight in the marketplace.

From Adam Davidson

Lots of countries have great constitutions, but their leaders have a practice of ignoring the rules whenever they feel like it.

From Adam Davidson

Poverty is not the simple result of bad geography, bad culture, bad history. It's the result of us: of the ways that people choose to organize their societies.

From Adam Davidson

If large numbers of people believe they have no shot at a better life in the future, they will work less hard and generate fewer new ideas and businesses. The economy, as a whole, will be poorer.

From Adam Davidson

Art is often valuable precisely because it isn't a sensible way to make money.

From Adam Davidson

It makes me happy to think that this world of art-as-investment is a minuscule fraction of the art world overall. Most people who create, trade and own art do it for a much simpler reason. They just like it.

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