Top 3 Quotes & Sayings by Rebecca M. Blank

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Last updated on November 4, 2024.
Rebecca M. Blank

Rebecca Margaret "Becky" Blank is an American economist and academic administrator. The Chancellor of the University of Wisconsin–Madison from 2013 to 2022, Blank has also served in various roles in the United States Department of Commerce, including as acting United States Secretary of Commerce. In the summer of 2022, after receiving a cancer diagnosis, Blank said that she would be unable to serve in her new role as president of Northwestern University.

We love a world in which the people in the white hats get rewarded and the people in the black hats pay the price. And that I have to say doesn't happen very often, particularly in a very complex economy. We're in a time of panic where people have lost trust in what the banks are doing, what the investment firms are doing - lost trust beyond a level of reasonableness, to be honest. And, it's got to be stopped.
Greed is good to most economists. It's greed that makes people work harder, be more productive and helps the economy grow. — © Rebecca M. Blank
Greed is good to most economists. It's greed that makes people work harder, be more productive and helps the economy grow.
The role of government is to create responsible greed to keep boundaries around what people do.
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