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More Joseph Stiglitz Quotes
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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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American inequality didn’t just happen. It was created.
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Society can’t function without shared prosperity.
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Anybody who knows about capitalism knows that bankruptcy is an essential part of capitalism.
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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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The U.S. basically wrote the rules and created the institutions of globalisation.
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Loose money and light regulation were a toxic mixture. It exploded.
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Multinational corporations must pay their fair share of taxes.
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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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It’s expensive to keep 2.3 million people in prison.
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Anybody who knows about capitalism knows that bankruptcy is an essential part of capitalism.
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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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Economists often like startling theorems, results which seem to run counter to conventional wisdom.
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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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The extra curricular activity in which I was most engaged – debating – helped shape my interests in public policy.
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