233 Quotes by Joseph Stiglitz

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    Donald Trump's astonishing victory in the U.S. presidential election has made one thing abundantly clear: too many Americans - particularly white male Americans - feel left behind.

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    What separates developing countries from developed countries is as much a gap in knowledge as a gap in resources.

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    Regulatory reform must move beyond limiting the damage that the financial sector can do and ensure that the sector genuinely serves society.

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    Some people say we have this inequality because some people have been contributing much more to our society, and so it's fair that they get more. But then you look at the people who are at the top, and you realize they're not the people who have transformed our economy, our society.

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    While it was an experiment to bring them together, nothing has divided Europe as much as the euro.

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    If Trump actually wants to help those who have been left behind, he must go beyond the ideological battles of the past.

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    When you're in government, you have a big impact in Washington, but Washington may not be doing very much.

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    Growth is not an objective in itself; we should be concerned with standards of living.

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    If there is a silver lining in the Trump cloud, it is a new sense of solidarity over core values such as tolerance and equality, sustained by awareness of the bigotry and misogyny, whether hidden or open, that Trump and his team embody.

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