What you measure affects what you do. If you don’t measure the right thing, you don’t do the right thing.
JOSEPH STIGLITZIf the President asked you to help, I don’t think anybody could refuse, unless one felt that one couldn’t be effective.
More Joseph Stiglitz Quotes
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We won’t have an economic recovery until Covid-19 is under control.
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It’s easy to get rich by getting a state asset at a deep discount.
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Climate change is a reality.
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Workers’ rights should be a central focus of development.
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In developing countries, lack of infrastructure is a far more serious barrier to trade than tariffs.
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I grew up in a family in which political issues were often discussed, and debated intensely.
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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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The U.S. basically wrote the rules and created the institutions of globalisation.
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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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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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But while I loved all of these courses, there was an irresistible attraction of economics.
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Poverty is what we call the extremes at the bottom.
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Anybody who knows about capitalism knows that bankruptcy is an essential part of capitalism.
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Society can’t function without shared prosperity.
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GDP tells you nothing about sustainability.
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