When markets fail, as they often do, collective action becomes imperative.
JOSEPH STIGLITZSociety can’t function without shared prosperity.
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Letting bygones be bygones is a basic principle in economics.
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It is trust, more than money, that makes the world go round.
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GDP tells you nothing about sustainability.
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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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Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.
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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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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 problem is a lot of what is called economics is not economics. It is more ideology or religion.
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Society can’t function without shared prosperity.
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The U.S. won’t be free of Covid-19 until the world is.
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Loose money and light regulation were a toxic mixture. It exploded.
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Economists often like startling theorems, results which seem to run counter to conventional wisdom.
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Workers’ rights should be a central focus of development.
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The reason that the invisible hand often seems invisible is that it is often not there.
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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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