International lending banks need to focus on areas where private investment doesn’t go, such as infrastructure projects, education and poverty relief.
JOSEPH STIGLITZIt is trust, more than money, that makes the world go round.
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Multinational corporations must pay their fair share of taxes.
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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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I grew up in a family in which political issues were often discussed, and debated intensely.
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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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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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Inequality is a choice. It is not inevitable.
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Bitcoin is successful only because of its potential for circumvention, lack of oversight.
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Poverty is what we call the extremes at the bottom.
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Amherst is a liberal arts college, committed to providing students with a broad education.
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Anybody who knows about capitalism knows that bankruptcy is an essential part of capitalism.
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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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In developing countries, lack of infrastructure is a far more serious barrier to trade than tariffs.
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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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Economists often like startling theorems, results which seem to run counter to conventional wisdom.
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Letting bygones be bygones is a basic principle in economics.
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