Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.
JOSEPH STIGLITZAmherst is a liberal arts college, committed to providing students with a broad education.
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Bitcoin is successful only because of its potential for circumvention, lack of oversight.
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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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Amherst is a liberal arts college, committed to providing students with a broad education.
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Society can’t function without shared prosperity.
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Economists often like startling theorems, results which seem to run counter to conventional wisdom.
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Loose money and light regulation were a toxic mixture. It exploded.
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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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Inequality is a choice. It is not inevitable.
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Development is about transforming the lives of people, not just transforming economies.
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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’s expensive to keep 2.3 million people in prison.
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When markets fail, as they often do, collective action becomes imperative.
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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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In developing countries, lack of infrastructure is a far more serious barrier to trade than tariffs.
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