Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.
JOSEPH STIGLITZ
The facts shouldn’t get in the way of a pleasant fantasy.
More Joseph Stiglitz Quotes
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Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.
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Climate change is a reality.
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In developing countries, lack of infrastructure is a far more serious barrier to trade than tariffs.
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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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GDP tells you nothing about sustainability.
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The reason that the invisible hand often seems invisible is that it is often not there.
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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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Multinational corporations must pay their fair share of taxes.
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Bitcoin is successful only because of its potential for circumvention, lack of oversight.
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Development is about transforming the lives of people, not just transforming economies.
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But while I loved all of these courses, there was an irresistible attraction of economics.
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Inequality is a choice. It is not inevitable.
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Loose money and light regulation were a toxic mixture. It exploded.
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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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Economists often like startling theorems, results which seem to run counter to conventional wisdom.
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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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