When I said “the pocket of the banks,” it is not necessarily a mercenary relationship. It is a mindset.
JOSEPH STIGLITZWorkers’ rights should be a central focus of development.
More Joseph Stiglitz Quotes
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Development is about transforming the lives of people, not just transforming economies.
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Letting bygones be bygones is a basic principle in economics.
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What you measure affects what you do. If you don’t measure the right thing, you don’t do the right thing.
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We won’t have an economic recovery until Covid-19 is under control.
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Macroeconomic policy can never be devoid of politics: it involves fundamental trade-offs and affects different groups differently.
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It is trust, more than money, that makes the world go round.
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In developing countries, lack of infrastructure is a far more serious barrier to trade than tariffs.
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Amherst is a liberal arts college, committed to providing students with a broad education.
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I grew up in a family in which political issues were often discussed, and debated intensely.
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Poverty is what we call the extremes at the bottom.
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It’s expensive to keep 2.3 million people in prison.
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Climate change poses an existential threat to the planet that is no less dire than that posed by North Korea’s nuclear ambitions.
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Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.
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Nationalization of private debts undermines prudential lender behavior and is a government intervention in the market.
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The only surprise about the economic crisis of 2008 was that it came as a surprise to so many.
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