The U.S. won’t be free of Covid-19 until the world is.
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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Society can’t function without shared prosperity.
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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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The extra curricular activity in which I was most engaged – debating – helped shape my interests in public policy.
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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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Letting bygones be bygones is a basic principle in economics.
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The U.S. basically wrote the rules and created the institutions of globalisation.
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Climate change is a reality.
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The facts shouldn’t get in the way of a pleasant fantasy.
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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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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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In developing countries, lack of infrastructure is a far more serious barrier to trade than tariffs.
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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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