Inequality is a choice. It is not inevitable.
JOSEPH STIGLITZWhen markets fail, as they often do, collective action becomes imperative.
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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It’s expensive to keep 2.3 million people in prison.
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In developing countries, lack of infrastructure is a far more serious barrier to trade than tariffs.
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Multinational corporations must pay their fair share of taxes.
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I grew up in a family in which political issues were often discussed, and debated intensely.
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Loose money and light regulation were a toxic mixture. It exploded.
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It is trust, more than money, that makes the world go round.
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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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Anybody who knows about capitalism knows that bankruptcy is an essential part of capitalism.
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American inequality didn’t just happen. It was created.
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The U.S. won’t be free of Covid-19 until the world is.
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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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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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The extra curricular activity in which I was most engaged – debating – helped shape my interests in public policy.
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It’s easy to get rich by getting a state asset at a deep discount.
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