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.
JOSEPH STIGLITZDevelopment is about transforming the lives of people, not just transforming economies.
More Joseph Stiglitz Quotes
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Nationalization of private debts undermines prudential lender behavior and is a government intervention in the market.
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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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When I said “the pocket of the banks,” it is not necessarily a mercenary relationship. It is a mindset.
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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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Multinational corporations must pay their fair share of taxes.
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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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The U.S. won’t be free of Covid-19 until the world is.
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We won’t have an economic recovery until Covid-19 is under control.
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It is trust, more than money, that makes the world go round.
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American inequality didn’t just happen. It was created.
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Climate change is a reality.
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Amherst is a liberal arts college, committed to providing students with a broad education.
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I grew up in a family in which political issues were often discussed, and debated intensely.
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Economists often like startling theorems, results which seem to run counter to conventional wisdom.
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