Joseph Stiglitz

It is trust, more than money, that makes the world go round.

— Joseph Stiglitz

American inequality didn't just happen. It was created.

— Joseph Stiglitz

Workers' rights should be a central focus of development.

— Joseph Stiglitz

Letting bygones be bygones is a basic principle in economics.

— Joseph Stiglitz

America will suffer under Trump.

— Joseph Stiglitz

A less healthy America is not going to be as productive.

— Joseph Stiglitz

It is always better to tax bad things than good things.

— Joseph Stiglitz

GDP tells you nothing about sustainability

— Joseph Stiglitz

If you destroy a firm, you can't pull it out of bankruptcy overnight.

— Joseph Stiglitz

When you're in government, you have a big impact in Washington, but Washington may not be doing very much.

— Joseph Stiglitz

While it was an experiment to bring them together, nothing has divided Europe as much as the euro.

— Joseph Stiglitz

In developing countries, lack of infrastructure is a far more serious barrier to trade than tariffs.

— Joseph Stiglitz

The Paris climate agreement may be a harbinger of the spirit and mindset needed to sustain genuine global cooperation.

— Joseph Stiglitz

America under Trump has gone from being a world leader to an object of derision.

— Joseph Stiglitz

Bitcoin is successful only because of its potential for circumvention, lack of oversight.

— Joseph Stiglitz

I'm enough of a political junkie to know if you have large numbers of people much worse off, you're going to have…

— Joseph Stiglitz

In an economy, when the government spends more and invests in the economy, that money circulates, and recirculates again and again. So…

— Joseph Stiglitz

I don't think if we had been able to make that choice rationally, we would have said that's what we want to…

— Joseph Stiglitz

Technology has been advancing so fast that the number of jobs globally in manufacturing is declining. There is no way that Trump…

— Joseph Stiglitz

When you don't have equality of opportunity because you don't have equal access to education, it just seems so outrageous. It weakens…

— Joseph Stiglitz

Regulatory reform must move beyond limiting the damage that the financial sector can do and ensure that the sector genuinely serves society.

— Joseph Stiglitz

For the president of the United States, reputation does matter. The reputation of the United States does matter. We are dealing with…

— Joseph Stiglitz

By taxing CO2, firms and households would have an incentive to retrofit for the world of the future. The tax would also…

— Joseph Stiglitz

In debate, one randomly was assigned to one side or the other. This had at least one virtue - it made one…

— Joseph Stiglitz

The country that's been most successful at that is Norway. The more typical countries are those in the Middle East where a…

— Joseph Stiglitz

What Trump has announced - that he is going to not obey rules by which we govern our relations with other countries.…

— Joseph Stiglitz

The problem with NAFTA was with what we wanted. And there, the agenda had been set by our corporations. So what is…

— Joseph Stiglitz

The international institutions go around the world preaching liberalization, and the developing countries see that means open up your markets to our…

— Joseph Stiglitz

Fortunately, America remains a robust democracy, where most individuals are not afraid to speak out. What we have done in Iraq has,…

— Joseph Stiglitz

Finance ministers and central bank governors have the seats at the table, not labor unions or labor ministers. Finance ministers and central…

— Joseph Stiglitz

We could have managed globalization in ways that ordinary citizens would have benefited rather than just the corporations. Trade is beneficial. There…

— Joseph Stiglitz

I've always been sceptical about the notion that the market is a person you can engage in an argument with, and that…

— Joseph Stiglitz

The IMF is a more complicated issue. I think there is a broad sentiment among both the left and the right that…

— Joseph Stiglitz

There have always been two theories about inequality. One is that it reflects just deserts. The other is that there are large…

— Joseph Stiglitz

The median family income in the U.S. is lower than it was a quarter-century ago, and if people don't have income, they…

— Joseph Stiglitz

Society can't function without shared prosperity.

— Joseph Stiglitz

Poverty is what we call the extremes at the bottom.

— Joseph Stiglitz

The reality is that what we did in 2010 with the Dodd-Frank wasn't enough.

— Joseph Stiglitz

With my kids, I'm a little sappier than my father may have been.

— Joseph Stiglitz

China, with its large emerging middle class, is among the big beneficiaries of globalization.

— Joseph Stiglitz