Multinational corporations must pay their fair share of taxes.
JOSEPH STIGLITZWhen I said “the pocket of the banks,” it is not necessarily a mercenary relationship. It is a mindset.
More Joseph Stiglitz Quotes
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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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GDP tells you nothing about sustainability.
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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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Poverty is what we call the extremes at the bottom.
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Workers’ rights should be a central focus of development.
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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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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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Loose money and light regulation were a toxic mixture. It exploded.
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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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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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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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Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.
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Economists often like startling theorems, results which seem to run counter to conventional wisdom.
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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 I said “the pocket of the banks,” it is not necessarily a mercenary relationship. It is a mindset.
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