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
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
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 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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'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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 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)
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