The only surprise about the economic crisis of 2008 was that it came as a surprise to so many. — Joseph Stiglitz Copy Share Image
Donald J. Trump has the good fortune of taking office as the economy is finally recovering from the 2008 crisis. — Joseph Stiglitz Copy Share Image
Anybody who has watched government from the inside recognizes that governments need institutions, need ways to respond to crises. — Joseph Stiglitz Copy Share Image
The roots of the crisis in East Asia were in private sector decisions. The biggest problems were the misallocation of investment, most… — Joseph Stiglitz Copy Share Image
China's accumulation of reserves is a result of the IMF's mismanagement of the Asian financial crisis a decade or so ago. If… — Joseph Stiglitz Copy Share Image
The crisis was 2008, in 2015 - almost eight years later and the gap between where we would have been and where… — Joseph Stiglitz Copy Share Image
In the midst of the East Asian crisis, there were choices. One choice would have been to encourage countries to implement a… — Joseph Stiglitz Copy Share Image
There will come a moment when the most urgent threats posed by the credit crisis have eased and the larger task before… — Joseph Stiglitz Copy Share Image
The IMF is a more complicated issue. I think there is a broad sentiment among both the left and the right that… — 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 Image
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 Image
China, with its large emerging middle class, is among the big beneficiaries of globalization. — Joseph Stiglitz Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
The laws of normal economics dictate that lower taxes combined with increased spending will lead to bigger deficits. — Joseph Stiglitz Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
![“World War II was really unusual, because America was in the Great Depression before. So the war did help the US economy to get securely out of this decline. This time, the war [in Iraq] is bad for the economy in both the short and long run. We could have spent trillions in research or education…” quote by Joseph Stiglitz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/860/joseph-stiglitz-1351_america_world-war-ii-was-really-unusual-because_156000.jpg)