International lending banks need to focus on areas where private investment doesn’t go, such as infrastructure projects, education and poverty relief.
JOSEPH STIGLITZThe reason that the invisible hand often seems invisible is that it is often not there.
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It’s expensive to keep 2.3 million people in prison.
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Anybody who knows about capitalism knows that bankruptcy is an essential part of capitalism.
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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 I said “the pocket of the banks,” it is not necessarily a mercenary relationship. It is a mindset.
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GDP tells you nothing about sustainability.
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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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The extra curricular activity in which I was most engaged – debating – helped shape my interests in public policy.
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Economists often like startling theorems, results which seem to run counter to conventional wisdom.
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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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Letting bygones be bygones is a basic principle in economics.
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Bitcoin is successful only because of its potential for circumvention, lack of oversight.
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Poverty is what we call the extremes at the bottom.
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When markets fail, as they often do, collective action becomes imperative.
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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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Multinational corporations must pay their fair share of taxes.
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