Climate change is a reality.
JOSEPH STIGLITZClimate change is a reality.
JOSEPH STIGLITZClimate change poses an existential threat to the planet that is no less dire than that posed by North Korea’s nuclear ambitions.
JOSEPH STIGLITZThe only surprise about the economic crisis of 2008 was that it came as a surprise to so many.
JOSEPH STIGLITZIt is trust, more than money, that makes the world go round.
JOSEPH STIGLITZGDP tells you nothing about sustainability.
JOSEPH STIGLITZMultinational corporations must pay their fair share of taxes.
JOSEPH STIGLITZThe reason that the invisible hand often seems invisible is that it is often not there.
JOSEPH STIGLITZIt’s expensive to keep 2.3 million people in prison.
JOSEPH STIGLITZInternational lending banks need to focus on areas where private investment doesn’t go, such as infrastructure projects, education and poverty relief.
JOSEPH STIGLITZWe won’t have an economic recovery until Covid-19 is under control.
JOSEPH STIGLITZMacroeconomic policy can never be devoid of politics: it involves fundamental trade-offs and affects different groups differently.
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 STIGLITZBitcoin is successful only because of its potential for circumvention, lack of oversight.
JOSEPH STIGLITZWhat you measure affects what you do. If you don’t measure the right thing, you don’t do the right thing.
JOSEPH STIGLITZAnybody who knows about capitalism knows that bankruptcy is an essential part of capitalism.
JOSEPH STIGLITZAmerican inequality didn’t just happen. It was created.
JOSEPH STIGLITZ