Austerity Quote by Joseph Stiglitz

In Europe there's an dangerous growth of ultra xenophobia which is pretty threatening to any one who remembers the history of Europe... and an…

— Noam Chomsky

Even in London, at the centre of the wealthiest region in northern Europe, in so many ways insulated from the financial realities faced by…

— David Olusoga

What are these so-called austerity measures? What do they really bring? Oh, they bring a lot more poverty. Oh, they bring a worse GDP.…

— Gerald Celente

Mainstream economic theories popular in the last several decades have tended to downplay the government's role in markets and to increase skepticism about even…

— Mariana Mazzucato

The insistence of European leaders to austerity policies keeps the European economy strapped in stagnation.

— Alexis Tsipras

Austerity need not be Europe's fate.

— Francois Hollande

One of the things that happens when you have austerity is that wages get lower, and some people think lower wages in the short…

— Joseph Stiglitz

Austerity is not part of the European treaties; democracy and the principle of popular sovereignty are.

— Alexis Tsipras

People are increasingly frustrated that decisions taken further and further away from them mean their living standards are slashed through enforced austerity or their…

— David Cameron

The human cost of austerity goes far beyond the period in which a country's economy endures those methods.

— Dawn Foster

'Austerity' is a real weasel word because it's an attempt to make something value-based and abstract out of something which, in reality, consists simply…

— John Lanchester

“Austerity, especially when it cannot be offset by a significant lowering of interest rates, brings with it increases in unemployment -- particularly enduring unemployment…

— Alex Himelfarb