Inequality is a choice. It is not inevitable.
JOSEPH STIGLITZAmherst is a liberal arts college, committed to providing students with a broad education.
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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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Development is about transforming the lives of people, not just transforming economies.
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The U.S. won’t be free of Covid-19 until the world is.
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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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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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Bitcoin is successful only because of its potential for circumvention, lack of oversight.
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The U.S. basically wrote the rules and created the institutions of globalisation.
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In developing countries, lack of infrastructure is a far more serious barrier to trade than tariffs.
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Economists often like startling theorems, results which seem to run counter to conventional wisdom.
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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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Amherst is a liberal arts college, committed to providing students with a broad education.
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Multinational corporations must pay their fair share of taxes.
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Society can’t function without shared prosperity.
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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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