Macroeconomic policy can never be devoid of politics: it involves fundamental trade-offs and affects different groups differently.
JOSEPH STIGLITZMacroeconomic policy can never be devoid of politics: it involves fundamental trade-offs and affects different groups differently.
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Society can’t function without shared prosperity.
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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 reason that the invisible hand often seems invisible is that it is often not there.
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It is trust, more than money, that makes the world go round.
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The problem is a lot of what is called economics is not economics. It is more ideology or religion.
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The extra curricular activity in which I was most engaged – debating – helped shape my interests in public policy.
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American inequality didn’t just happen. It was created.
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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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Poverty is what we call the extremes at the bottom.
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The U.S. basically wrote the rules and created the institutions of globalisation.
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The more divided a society becomes in terms of wealth, the more reluctant the wealthy are to spend money on common needs.
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Letting bygones be bygones is a basic principle in economics.
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Economists often like startling theorems, results which seem to run counter to conventional wisdom.
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When I said “the pocket of the banks,” it is not necessarily a mercenary relationship. It is a mindset.
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When you don’t have equality of opportunity because you don’t have equal access to education, it just seems so outrageous. It weakens our economy and leads to more inequality.
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