World War II was really unusual, because America was in the Great Depression before. So the war did help the US economy… — Joseph Stiglitz Copy Share Image
The country has large unfunded liabilities - social security, health care, and there will have to be some adjustments to these problems.… — Joseph Stiglitz Copy Share Image
Even if Bush could be forgiven for taking America, and much of the rest of the world, to war on false pretenses,… — Joseph Stiglitz Copy Share Image
Europe can't rely on a Trump-led U.S. for its defence. But, at the same time, it should recognise that the cold war… — Joseph Stiglitz Copy Share Image
In fact, for just about 1/6 of the cost of an Iraq War, we could have put the social security system on… — Joseph Stiglitz Copy Share Image
One of the real costs of the war is that our security is actually less than it otherwise would have been -… — Joseph Stiglitz Copy Share Image
Wall Street banks have used the same tactic that Bush used in the war on terror - fear - and they've basically… — Joseph Stiglitz Copy Share Image
The budgetary cost to the UK of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan through 2010 will total more than £18 billion. If… — Joseph Stiglitz Copy Share Image
The war in Iraq has been very, very expensive - partly because the Administration tried to keep the apparent costs down. But… — Joseph Stiglitz Copy Share Image
Most people think the Iraq war has increased the probability of an attack. However, it's difficult to put this aspect into financial… — Joseph Stiglitz Copy Share Image
We are helping the people that [George W.]Bush says are evil. Teheran couldn't be happier about the high oil prices resulting from… — Joseph Stiglitz Copy Share Image
The national debt will have increased by approximately 50% in just eight years! We will have created a new unfunded entitlement -… — 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
Behind Trump's promise to 'make America great again' lie many fallacies. The most important fallacy is that America's place in the world… — Joseph Stiglitz Copy Share Image
This Iraq war has been the most "privatized" war in America's history. It has seen the most extensive use of contractors. The… — Joseph Stiglitz Copy Share Image
I find it scandalous not only that there was so little discussion of the costs of the Iraq war before we went… — Joseph Stiglitz Copy Share Image
I'm writing from New Zealand - a country that decided from the beginning that the War was wrong, and chose not to… — Joseph Stiglitz Copy Share Image
As a rich country, we can, in some sense, "afford" the war. But spending money on the war means that we are… — Joseph Stiglitz Copy Share Image
There is a clear and strong link between the economy's present woes and the Iraq war. The war was at least one… — Joseph Stiglitz Copy Share Image
For 60 years, since World War II, we have been trying to create a rules-based system, a global economic system. We understand… — Joseph Stiglitz Copy Share Image
The only people benefiting in Iraq war are George Bush's Jr. friends in the oil industry. He has done the American economy… — Joseph Stiglitz Copy Share Image
Fortunately, America remains a robust democracy, where most individuals are not afraid to speak out. What we have done in Iraq has,… — Joseph Stiglitz Copy Share Image
For instance, one of the costs of the war is that soldiers today get very seriously injured but stay alive, and we… — 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
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