All Joseph Stiglitz Quotes
- The life prospects of an American are more dependent on the income and education of his parents than in any of the other advanced industrial… Advanced
- Poverty is what we call the extremes at the bottom. Bottom
- Climate change is a reality. Change
- In developing countries, lack of infrastructure is a far more serious barrier to trade than tariffs. Barrier
- If stability and efficiency required that there existed markets that extended infinitely far into the future - and these markets clearly did not exist -… Assurance
- Economists often like startling theorems, results which seem to run counter to conventional wisdom. Conventional
- Amherst was pivotal in my broad intellectual development; MIT in my development as a professional economist. Amherst
- I grew up in a family in which political issues were often discussed, and debated intensely. Debated
- I went to public schools, and while Gary was, like most American cities, racially segregated, it was at least socially integrated - a cross section… All
- There must have been something in the air of Gary that led one into economics: the first Nobel Prize winner, Paul Samuelson, was also from… Air
- Development is about transforming the lives of people, not just transforming economies. Development
- The budgetary cost to the UK of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan through 2010 will total more than £18 billion. If we include the… Afghanistan
- Certainly, the poverty, the discrimination, the episodic unemployment could not but strike an inquiring youngster: why did these exist, and what could we do about… Discrimination
- My teachers helped guide and motivate me; but the responsibility of learning was left with me, an approach to learning which was later reinforced by… Amherst
- But while I loved all of these courses, there was an irresistible attraction of economics. All
- I, like many members of my generation, was concerned with segregation and the repeated violation of civil rights. Civil
- My research in this period centered around growth, technical change, and income distribution, both how growth affected the distribution of income and how the distribution… Affected
- I recognized that information was, in many respects, like a public good, and it was this insight that made it clear to me that it… Allocations