If the President asked you to help, I don’t think anybody could refuse, unless one felt that one couldn’t be effective.
JOSEPH STIGLITZAsk not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.
More Joseph Stiglitz Quotes
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Inequality is a choice. It is not inevitable.
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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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American inequality didn’t just happen. It was created.
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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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But while I loved all of these courses, there was an irresistible attraction of economics.
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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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Letting bygones be bygones is a basic principle in economics.
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It’s expensive to keep 2.3 million people in prison.
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GDP tells you nothing about sustainability.
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Development is about transforming the lives of people, not just transforming economies.
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Workers’ rights should be a central focus of development.
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It is trust, more than money, that makes the world go round.
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Economists often like startling theorems, results which seem to run counter to conventional wisdom.
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The U.S. basically wrote the rules and created the institutions of globalisation.
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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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