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.
JOSEPH STIGLITZIt’s easy to get rich by getting a state asset at a deep discount.
More Joseph Stiglitz Quotes
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International lending banks need to focus on areas where private investment doesn’t go, such as infrastructure projects, education and poverty relief.
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Letting bygones be bygones is a basic principle in economics.
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American inequality didn’t just happen. It was created.
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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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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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Loose money and light regulation were a toxic mixture. It exploded.
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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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If the President asked you to help, I don’t think anybody could refuse, unless one felt that one couldn’t be effective.
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Amherst is a liberal arts college, committed to providing students with a broad education.
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Inequality is a choice. It is not inevitable.
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Society can’t function without shared prosperity.
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GDP tells you nothing about sustainability.
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Bitcoin is successful only because of its potential for circumvention, lack of oversight.
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Anybody who knows about capitalism knows that bankruptcy is an essential part of capitalism.
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