If the President asked you to help, I don’t think anybody could refuse, unless one felt that one couldn’t be effective.
JOSEPH STIGLITZSociety can’t function without shared prosperity.
More Joseph Stiglitz Quotes
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GDP tells you nothing about sustainability.
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Letting bygones be bygones is a basic principle in economics.
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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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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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When I said “the pocket of the banks,” it is not necessarily a mercenary relationship. It is a mindset.
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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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Workers’ rights should be a central focus of development.
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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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We won’t have an economic recovery until Covid-19 is under control.
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Economists often like startling theorems, results which seem to run counter to conventional wisdom.
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It is trust, more than money, that makes the world go round.
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Bitcoin is successful only because of its potential for circumvention, lack of oversight.
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The U.S. won’t be free of Covid-19 until the world is.
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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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