"The budgetary cost to the UK of the……" — Joseph Stiglitz
"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 social costs the total impact will exceed £20 billion."
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43 Quotes by Joseph Stiglitz
Joseph Stiglitz has 43 quotes on this site.
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Drug companies spend more on advertising and marketing than on research, more on research on lifestyle drugs than on life…
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Amherst is a liberal arts college, committed to providing students with a broad education.
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As I noted in my Nobel lecture, an early insight in my work on the economics of information concerned the…
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But individuals and firms spend an enormous amount of resources acquiring information, which affects their beliefs; and actions of others…
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I think in part the reason is that seeing an economy that is, in many ways, quite different from the…
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I knew that discrimination existed, even though there were many individuals who were not prejudiced.
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I went to Amherst because my brother had gone there before me, and he went there because his guidance counselor…
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International lending banks need to focus on areas where private investment doesn't go, such as infrastructure projects, education and poverty…
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The notion that every well educated person would have a mastery of at least the basic elements of the humanities,…
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The top 1 percent have the best houses, the best educations, the best doctors, and the best lifestyles, but there…
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GDP tells you nothing about sustainability
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American inequality didn't just happen. It was created.
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You go to London, you see a TV set in every cell and the sign up that all the officers…
— Joe Arpaio
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Military hardliners called me a 'security threat' for promoting peace in South Asia and for supporting a broad-based government in…
— Benazir Bhutto
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Al Qaeda is almost all in Pakistan, and Pakistan has nuclear weapons. And yet for every dollar we're spending in…
— Joe Biden
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I don't want to go and start trying to make jokes in places like India, Tanzania or Iraq. Afghanistan is…
— Bill Bryson
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Since the attack on the United States on September 11 2001, and the US retaliation in Afghanistan and Iraq, there…
— James Buchan
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I mean Afghanistan is a very rugged, complicated country.
— Barbara Bush
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The men and women of Afghanistan are building a nation that is free, and proud, and fighting terror - and…
— George W. Bush
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I believe in the transformational power of liberty. I believe that the free Iraq is in this nation's interests. I…
— George W. Bush
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The young patriots now returning from war in Iraq and Afghanistan and other deployments worldwide are joining the ranks of…
— Steve Buyer
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I think we need to just be very clear about what we're trying to do in Afghanistan. Frankly, we're not…
— David Cameron
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And the fact of the matter is there were thousands of people that went through those training camps in Afghanistan.…
— Dick Cheney
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When an army unit returns from service in Iraq or Afghanistan, it barely gets a breather before it begins training…
— Hillary Clinton
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