Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.
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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The only surprise about the economic crisis of 2008 was that it came as a surprise to so many.
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Poverty is what we call the extremes at the bottom.
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Loose money and light regulation were a toxic mixture. It exploded.
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Multinational corporations must pay their fair share of taxes.
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It’s easy to get rich by getting a state asset at a deep discount.
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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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Anybody who knows about capitalism knows that bankruptcy is an essential part of capitalism.
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Letting bygones be bygones is a basic principle in economics.
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The U.S. won’t be free of Covid-19 until the world is.
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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.
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Development is about transforming the lives of people, not just transforming economies.
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American inequality didn’t just happen. It was created.
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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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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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