In the U.S., you couldn't have job creation with interest rates of 30 or 40 percent. They had a philosophy that said… — Joseph Stiglitz Copy Share Image
Capital market liberalization includes freeing up deposit and lending rates, opening up the market to foreign banks, and removing restrictions on capital… — Joseph Stiglitz Copy Share Image
I trace the inequality to a particular set of decisions that we took when we lowered the tax rate from 91% down… — Joseph Stiglitz Copy Share Image
When you think of policies that are going to address inequality of wealth, you have to be very thoughtful about what economists… — Joseph Stiglitz Copy Share Image
The IMF insisted that both Russia and Brazil maintain their currency at over-valued levels. Who are you protecting when you try to… — 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
Policies seemed almost deliberately designed to suppress new enterprise and job creation. How many Americans will start a business if the interest… — Joseph Stiglitz Copy Share Image
What most Americans mean when they say "the end of the recession" is, "When will it be back to normal? When can… — Joseph Stiglitz Copy Share Image
The recovery of the banks is what happens when you reduce competition, lend money to them at zero interest rates, allow them… — 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)