We have a locale-based education system; we have increasing economic segregation. We clearly need a larger federal program to try to help… — Joseph Stiglitz Copy Share Image
Amherst is a liberal arts college, committed to providing students with a broad education. — Joseph Stiglitz Copy Share Image
The life prospects of an American are more dependent on the income and education of his parents than in any of the… — Joseph Stiglitz Copy Share Image
When you don't have equality of opportunity because you don't have equal access to education, it just seems so outrageous. It weakens… — Joseph Stiglitz Copy Share Image
Not everybody is qualified to go to Stanford, but everybody should have access to the best qualify for which they are eligible. — Joseph Stiglitz Copy Share Image
International lending banks need to focus on areas where private investment doesn't go, such as infrastructure projects, education and poverty relief. — Joseph Stiglitz Copy Share Image
Active learning is always involved with interaction between teachers and students and Socratic methods and that's gonna continue. — Joseph Stiglitz Copy Share Image
My teachers helped guide and motivate me; but the responsibility of learning was left with me, an approach to learning which was… — Joseph Stiglitz Copy Share Image
The notion that every well educated person would have a mastery of at least the basic elements of the humanities, sciences, and… — Joseph Stiglitz Copy Share Image
I went to public schools, and while Gary was, like most American cities, racially segregated, it was at least socially integrated -… — Joseph Stiglitz Copy Share Image
There's a long list of investments that governments could and should be making. There is strengthening infrastructure, such as transport and communications;… — Joseph Stiglitz Copy Share Image
Ensuring preschool education for all and investing more in public schools is essential if the U.S. is to avoid becoming a neo-feudal… — Joseph Stiglitz Copy Share Image
It's actually a tribute to the quality of economics teaching that they have persuaded so many generations of students to believe in… — Joseph Stiglitz Copy Share Image
The top 1 percent have the best houses, the best educations, the best doctors, and the best lifestyles, but there is one… — Joseph Stiglitz Copy Share Image
Twenty per cent of American children grow up in poverty, and that means they get inadequate nutrition, inadequate health care, and because… — Joseph Stiglitz Copy Share Image
“So, the advice I'd give to the 1 percent today is: Harden your hearts. When invited to consider proposals to reduce inequality… — Joseph Stiglitz Copy Share Image
I grew up in a family in which political issues were often discussed, and debated intensely. — Joseph Stiglitz Copy Share
But individuals and firms spend an enormous amount of resources acquiring information, which affects their beliefs; and actions of others too affect their beliefs. — Joseph Stiglitz Copy Share
China, with its large emerging middle class, is among the big beneficiaries of globalization. — Joseph Stiglitz Copy Share
Trickle-down economics is a myth. Enriching corporations - as the TPP would - will not necessarily help those in the middle, let alone those… — Joseph Stiglitz Copy Share
Some people say we have this inequality because some people have been contributing much more to our society, and so it's fair that they… — Joseph Stiglitz Copy Share
It's actually a tribute to the quality of economics teaching that they have persuaded so many generations of students to believe in so much… — Joseph Stiglitz Copy Share
In an economy, when the government spends more and invests in the economy, that money circulates, and recirculates again and again. So not only… — Joseph Stiglitz Copy Share
The laws of normal economics dictate that lower taxes combined with increased spending will lead to bigger deficits. — Joseph Stiglitz Copy Share
As I noted in my Nobel lecture, an early insight in my work on the economics of information concerned the problem of appropriability -… — Joseph Stiglitz Copy Share
We noted the psychological problems facing many of the returning from Iraq veterans - of the 700,000 returning veterans, more than a 100,000 have… — Joseph Stiglitz Copy Share
World War II was really unusual, because America was in the Great Depression before. So the war did help the US economy to get… — Joseph Stiglitz Copy Share
Moreover, because we chose to finance the way by borrowing, our deficits and debt has soared, and this means we have less room for… — Joseph Stiglitz Copy Share
I've always been sceptical about the notion that the market is a person you can engage in an argument with, and that that person… — Joseph Stiglitz Copy Share
The striking thing about America is - it's historically, extraordinary unusual,I don't of any other instance - is that productivity of workers and wages… — Joseph Stiglitz Copy Share
