40+ Joseph Stiglitz Quotes | Minimalist Quotes

It’s expensive to keep 2.3 million people in prison.
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Expensive People Prison
The facts shouldn’t get in the way of a pleasant fantasy.
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Fact Fantasy Pleasant
Anybody who knows about capitalism knows that bankruptcy is an essential part of capitalism.
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Bankrupt Capital Essential Investment
Loose money and light regulation were a toxic mixture. It exploded.
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Mixture Money Toxic
It is trust, more than money, that makes the world go round.
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Inspirational Money Round Trust World
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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Bank Education Focus Infrastructure International Investment Poverty Private Project
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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Affect Measure Right
Poverty is what we call the extremes at the bottom.
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Bottom Country Extreme Poverty
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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Economy Education Equality Inequality Opportunity
Economists often like startling theorems, results which seem to run counter to conventional wisdom.
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Conventional Counter Economy Result Wisdom
American inequality didn’t just happen. It was created.
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Country Creation Happen Inequality
GDP tells you nothing about sustainability.
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Economy GDP Sustain
When I said “the pocket of the banks,” it is not necessarily a mercenary relationship. It is a mindset.
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Bank Mindset Pocket
Amherst is a liberal arts college, committed to providing students with a broad education.
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Broad College Education Student
Anybody who knows about capitalism knows that bankruptcy is an essential part of capitalism.
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Bankrupt Capital Essential Investment
Climate change is a reality.
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Change Climate One Liner Reality
We won’t have an economic recovery until Covid-19 is under control.
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Control Covid-19 Economy Recover
It’s easy to get rich by getting a state asset at a deep discount.
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Asset Discount Rich Strategy
I grew up in a family in which political issues were often discussed, and debated intensely.
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Debt Discuss Family Grow Up Intense Politics
Inequality is a choice. It is not inevitable.
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Choice Inequality Inevitable
Letting bygones be bygones is a basic principle in economics.
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Economy Principle
Nationalization of private debts undermines prudential lender behavior and is a government intervention in the market.
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Behavior Debt Government Market Private
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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Ask Effective Help President Refuse
Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.
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Country Independence Inspirational
The U.S. basically wrote the rules and created the institutions of globalisation.
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Country Creation Global Institution Rule
Development is about transforming the lives of people, not just transforming economies.
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Development Economy Live People Transformation
The reason that the invisible hand often seems invisible is that it is often not there.
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Invisible Reason

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