What you measure affects what you do. If you don’t measure the right thing, you don’t do the right thing.
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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Amherst is a liberal arts college, committed to providing students with a broad education.
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The U.S. won’t be free of Covid-19 until the world is.
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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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In developing countries, lack of infrastructure is a far more serious barrier to trade than tariffs.
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The only surprise about the economic crisis of 2008 was that it came as a surprise to so many.
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But while I loved all of these courses, there was an irresistible attraction of economics.
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Loose money and light regulation were a toxic mixture. It exploded.
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The U.S. basically wrote the rules and created the institutions of globalisation.
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Inequality is a choice. It is not inevitable.
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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 is a reality.
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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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GDP tells you nothing about sustainability.
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It is trust, more than money, that makes the world go round.
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It’s expensive to keep 2.3 million people in prison.
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