When you're in government, you have a big impact in Washington, but Washington may not be doing very much. — Joseph Stiglitz Copy Share Image
America under Trump has gone from being a world leader to an object of derision. — 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
Trump assumed office promising to 'drain the swamp' in Washington, D.C. Instead, the swamp has grown wider and deeper. — 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
If Trump actually wants to help those who have been left behind, he must go beyond the ideological battles of the past. — Joseph Stiglitz Copy Share Image
Trump can bring jobs back, but they will be minimal-wage jobs, not the high-paying jobs of the 1950s. — Joseph Stiglitz Copy Share Image
Donald Trump's astonishing victory in the U.S. presidential election has made one thing abundantly clear: too many Americans - particularly white male… — Joseph Stiglitz Copy Share Image
America and the world are paying a high price for devotion to the extreme anti-government ideology embraced by Donald Trump and his… — Joseph Stiglitz Copy Share Image
Our economy has not served large fractions of our population. Trump grasped that. And rather than saying, "What have we not done… — Joseph Stiglitz Copy Share Image
If there is a silver lining in the Trump cloud, it is a new sense of solidarity over core values such as… — Joseph Stiglitz Copy Share Image
Trump will fail even in his proclaimed goal of reducing the trade deficit, which is determined by the disparity between domestic savings… — Joseph Stiglitz Copy Share Image
A politically astute president who understood deeply the economics and politics of corporate tax reform could conceivably muscle Congress toward a reform… — Joseph Stiglitz Copy Share Image
When Donald Trump campaigned for president, he told the American people that he would be a different type of Republican, that he… — Joseph Stiglitz Copy Share Image
For the United States, our political system is clearly distorted. We have gerrymandering so that there is a situation where a million… — Joseph Stiglitz Copy Share Image
The basic thing that made Trump popular is that he blamed others for the problems that we have in the United States.… — Joseph Stiglitz Copy Share Image
Trump is particularly unfit to serve because he approaches these without any view of what the truth is, and he approaches these… — 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
