The extra curricular activity in which I was most engaged – debating – helped shape my interests in public policy.
JOSEPH STIGLITZClimate change is a reality.
More Joseph Stiglitz Quotes
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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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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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Macroeconomic policy can never be devoid of politics: it involves fundamental trade-offs and affects different groups differently.
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Workers’ rights should be a central focus of development.
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Economists often like startling theorems, results which seem to run counter to conventional wisdom.
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The more divided a society becomes in terms of wealth, the more reluctant the wealthy are to spend money on common needs.
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The reason that the invisible hand often seems invisible is that it is often not there.
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Bitcoin is successful only because of its potential for circumvention, lack of oversight.
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Letting bygones be bygones is a basic principle in economics.
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But while I loved all of these courses, there was an irresistible attraction of economics.
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The problem is a lot of what is called economics is not economics. It is more ideology or religion.
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Development is about transforming the lives of people, not just transforming economies.
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Poverty is what we call the extremes at the bottom.
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Amherst is a liberal arts college, committed to providing students with a broad education.
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It’s expensive to keep 2.3 million people in prison.
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