We won’t have an economic recovery until Covid-19 is under control.
JOSEPH STIGLITZWe won’t have an economic recovery until Covid-19 is under control.
JOSEPH STIGLITZBitcoin is successful only because of its potential for circumvention, lack of oversight.
JOSEPH STIGLITZThe facts shouldn’t get in the way of a pleasant fantasy.
JOSEPH STIGLITZAsk not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.
JOSEPH STIGLITZThe U.S. basically wrote the rules and created the institutions of globalisation.
JOSEPH STIGLITZThe only surprise about the economic crisis of 2008 was that it came as a surprise to so many.
JOSEPH STIGLITZIf the President asked you to help, I don’t think anybody could refuse, unless one felt that one couldn’t be effective.
JOSEPH STIGLITZIn developing countries, lack of infrastructure is a far more serious barrier to trade than tariffs.
JOSEPH STIGLITZMacroeconomic policy can never be devoid of politics: it involves fundamental trade-offs and affects different groups differently.
JOSEPH STIGLITZNationalization of private debts undermines prudential lender behavior and is a government intervention in the market.
JOSEPH STIGLITZWhen I said “the pocket of the banks,” it is not necessarily a mercenary relationship. It is a mindset.
JOSEPH STIGLITZEconomists often like startling theorems, results which seem to run counter to conventional wisdom.
JOSEPH STIGLITZI grew up in a family in which political issues were often discussed, and debated intensely.
JOSEPH STIGLITZWhen 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 expensive to keep 2.3 million people in prison.
JOSEPH STIGLITZAmerican inequality didn’t just happen. It was created.
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