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I Started In The Law; And The Study Of Law, When It Precedes The Study Of Economics, Gives You A Set Of Foundation Principles About How Human Beings Interact. Economics Is Very Useful, And I Studied Economics In Graduate School. But Without Understanding The Social And Organizational Context Of Economics, It Becomes A Theory Without Any Groundwork.

The Presidency Is Probably The Loneliest Office In America. Regardless Of Your Friends, Regardless Of How Good Your Marriage Is, Regardless Of Anything, You Are Alone There At The Top.

I Don't Think That Our Problem, Our Jobs Problem, Is Fundamentally A Problem Of Trade. I Think It Has Much More To Do With The Fact That We Have Not Sufficiently Educated Our Population. We Have Not Got Out Of This Great Recession With Adequate Stimulus And Adequate Fiscal And Monetary Policies Over All.

We Are Creating A One Size Fits All System That Needlessly Brands Many Young People As Failures, When They Might Thrive If Offered A Different Education Whose Progress Was Measured Differently. Paradoxically We're Embracing Standardized Tests Just When The Economy Is Eliminating Standardized Jobs.

The Only Way To Grow The Economy In A Way That Benefits The Bottom 90 Percent Is To Change The Structure Of The Economy. At The Least, This Requires Stronger Unions And A Higher Minimum Wage.