If the President asked you to help, I don’t think anybody could refuse, unless one felt that one couldn’t be effective.
JOSEPH STIGLITZAnybody who knows about capitalism knows that bankruptcy is an essential part of capitalism.
More Joseph Stiglitz Quotes
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Inequality is a choice. It is not inevitable.
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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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When markets fail, as they often do, collective action becomes imperative.
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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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Economists often like startling theorems, results which seem to run counter to conventional wisdom.
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It’s easy to get rich by getting a state asset at a deep discount.
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The facts shouldn’t get in the way of a pleasant fantasy.
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Bitcoin is successful only because of its potential for circumvention, lack of oversight.
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It’s expensive to keep 2.3 million people in prison.
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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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Multinational corporations must pay their fair share of taxes.
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The U.S. basically wrote the rules and created the institutions of globalisation.
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Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.
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I grew up in a family in which political issues were often discussed, and debated intensely.
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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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