Loose money and light regulation were a toxic mixture. It exploded.
JOSEPH STIGLITZWhat you measure affects what you do. If you don’t measure the right thing, you don’t do the right thing.
More Joseph Stiglitz Quotes
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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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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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We won’t have an economic recovery until Covid-19 is under control.
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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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Economists often like startling theorems, results which seem to run counter to conventional wisdom.
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Anybody who knows about capitalism knows that bankruptcy is an essential part of capitalism.
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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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Multinational corporations must pay their fair share of taxes.
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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 reason that the invisible hand often seems invisible is that it is often not there.
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Climate change is a reality.
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Inequality is a choice. It is not inevitable.
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The U.S. basically wrote the rules and created the institutions of globalisation.
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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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