Quotes About Joseph Stiglitz

In America the share of national income going to the top .01% (some 16,000 families) has risen from just over 1% in 1980 to almost 5% now—an even bigger slice than the top .01% got in the Gilded Age."9

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

When you don't have equality of opportunity because you don't have equal access to education, it just seems so outrageous. It weakens our economy and leads to more inequality.

The extra curricular activity in which I was most engaged - debating - helped shape my interests in public policy.

It is a wonderful and unexpected honor to receive the Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel. Receiving this prize with Joseph Stiglitz and George Akerlof, whose work I have learned from and admired, makes it even more gratifying.

Climate change poses an existential threat to the planet that is no less dire than that posed by North Korea's nuclear ambitions.

China-led globalization in some ways worries me because they are not concerned about human rights, labor rights. They probably aren't even really concerned about competitive marketplaces. So in some ways, they're like Mr. Trump.

The bank bailout should have been more focused on helping small and medium sized banks, on helping homeowners. I think the trade agreements are a disaster.

But while I loved all of these courses, there was an irresistible attraction of economics.

What I argued in 'The Great Divide' is that societies can't function without trust, both politically and economically.

There is a broad consensus, not only in the United States but in most of the world, that if you are in an economic downturn, you need to stimulate. Germany seems to be an exception.

I, like many members of my generation, was concerned with segregation and the repeated violation of civil rights.