233 Quotes by Joseph Stiglitz

The question is whether it'll be a stable country, will it be a country in which a diversity of views, open transparency, women's rights are recognized. The likelihood of that remains very low.

You can increase the price from 25 to 40 dollars, and people can absorb it. If the price rises above 60 dollars, they become unhappy. They start to adjust, they move to smaller cars, drive a little bit less.

Elderly people remember when they could go to the movie for a nickel or a quarter,

So the theory asks, how can shareholders ascertain what the firm's real prospects are when they have less information, ... It's a pervasive aspect of modern economies.

Anybody looking at these models would say they can't provide a good description of the modern world.

An example might be, when the owner of the firm knows more than the shareholders.

Asia has become the source of finance, the source of savings. It now has the human capital to manage that well. Why doesn't it take the advantage of that opportunity to try and create financial markets that work better for the people of Asia.

I told the commission that offering the two versions of Windows without a price difference was not a level playing field.

The US economy has lots of vulnerabilities in debts and deficits.