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" There is something about the mindset of a scientist that is different - an awareness of uncertainty, modeling, proof. "
Joseph Stiglitz
Modeling
Mindset
Uncertainty
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" But individuals and firms spend an enormous amount of resources acquiring information, which affects their beliefs; and actions of others too affect their beliefs. "
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" People at the top spend less money than those at the bottom, so when you have redistribution toward the top, aggregate demand goes down. Unless you intervene, you're going to have a weak economy unless something else happens. "
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You
Down
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" Free migration within Europe means that countries that have done a better job at reducing unemployment will predictably end up with more than their fair share of refugees. Workers in these countries bear the cost in depressed wages and higher unemployment, while employers benefit from cheaper labor. "
Joseph Stiglitz
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" I went to Amherst because my brother had gone there before me, and he went there because his guidance counselor thought that we would do better there than at a large university like Harvard. "
Joseph Stiglitz
University
Me
Brother
" The reality is that what we did in 2010 with the Dodd-Frank wasn't enough. "
Joseph Stiglitz
Did
Enough
Reality
" One of the arguments I make for the failure of the euro is that, at the time it was being constructed, there was a 'neo-liberal' ideology which said that all we need to do to make this thing work is to get deficits low, keep inflation low, and take down barriers, and then everything would be fine. "
Joseph Stiglitz
Down
Said
Time
" Trump has been criticized by mainstream Republicans for not really being one of them. But he is definitely one of them when it comes to the central palliative for any ill befalling the country: a tax cut for the rich. "
Joseph Stiglitz
Rich
Tax
Republicans
" 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. "
Joseph Stiglitz
Most
Economic
World
" The Clinton years were not an economic Nirvana; as chairman of the president's Council of Economic Advisers during part of this time, I'm all too aware of mistakes and lost opportunities. "
Joseph Stiglitz
Too
Lost
Mistakes
" 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. "
Joseph Stiglitz
Cloud
Team
Equality
" European officials thought that austerity was part of what they called their 'convergence policies,' of trying to bring countries together. Instead, it actually made things worse. There's more inequality within countries and more disparity across countries. "
Joseph Stiglitz
Thought
Together
Trying
" Technology has been advancing so fast that the number of jobs globally in manufacturing is declining. There is no way that Trump can bring significant numbers of manufacturing jobs back to the U.S. "
Joseph Stiglitz
Numbers
Fast
Manufacturing
" 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. "
Joseph Stiglitz
People
Society
You
" Macroeconomic policy can never be devoid of politics: it involves fundamental trade-offs and affects different groups differently. "
Joseph Stiglitz
Politics
Never
Policy
" The diversity of Europe is its strength. But for a single currency to work, over a region with enormous economic and political diversity, is not easy. "
Joseph Stiglitz
Diversity
Political
Strength
" An economy in which most citizens are doing worse year after year - an economy like America's - is not likely to do well over the long haul. "
Joseph Stiglitz
Year
Long
Economy
" Behind Trump's promise to 'make America great again' lie many fallacies. The most important fallacy is that America's place in the world can be restored to the one it occupied after World War II, when Europe was still recovering from vast devastation and most developing countries were still European colonies. It can't be. "
Joseph Stiglitz
World
Lie
Place
" My research in this period centered around growth, technical change, and income distribution, both how growth affected the distribution of income and how the distribution of income affected growth. "
Joseph Stiglitz
How
Research
Growth
" The notion that every well educated person would have a mastery of at least the basic elements of the humanities, sciences, and social sciences is a far cry from the specialized education that most students today receive, particularly in the research universities. "
Joseph Stiglitz
Education
Cry
Research
" Certainly, the poverty, the discrimination, the episodic unemployment could not but strike an inquiring youngster: why did these exist, and what could we do about them. "
Joseph Stiglitz
Strike
Why
Discrimination
" A single currency entails a fixed interest rate, which means countries can't manage their own currency to suit their own needs. You need a variety of institutions to help nations for which the policies aren't well suited. Europe introduced the euro without providing those structures. "
Joseph Stiglitz
Help
You
Single
" Regulatory reform must move beyond limiting the damage that the financial sector can do and ensure that the sector genuinely serves society. "
Joseph Stiglitz
Beyond
Society
Reform
" In addition to offering benefits to those who invest, carry out research, and create jobs, higher taxes on land and real-estate speculation would redirect capital toward productivity-enhancing spending - the key to long-term improvement in living standards. "
Joseph Stiglitz
Improvement
Create
Research
" The Paris climate agreement may be a harbinger of the spirit and mindset needed to sustain genuine global cooperation. "
Joseph Stiglitz
May
Spirit
Paris
" One can only hope that America, and other countries, will not need more natural persuasion before taking to heart the lessons of Hurricane Harvey. "
Joseph Stiglitz
Hurricane
Need
Hope
" Obama had to save the banks, sure, but he didn't have to save the bankers and the shareholders and the bondholders. We broke the rules of capitalism in order to save those at the top - as we always do. "
Joseph Stiglitz
Always
He
Capitalism
" Much of my work in this period was concerned with exploring the logic of economic models, but also with attempting to reconcile the models with every day observation. "
Joseph Stiglitz
Logic
Every Day
Exploring
" If stability and efficiency required that there existed markets that extended infinitely far into the future - and these markets clearly did not exist - what assurance do we have of the stability and efficiency of the capitalist system? "
Joseph Stiglitz
System
Efficiency
Future
" The laws of normal economics dictate that lower taxes combined with increased spending will lead to bigger deficits. "
Joseph Stiglitz
Normal
Economics
Lead
" It's very hard to persuade a young person who has seen the Great Recession, who has seen all the problems with inequality, to tell them inequality is not important and that markets are always efficient. They'd think you're crazy. "
Joseph Stiglitz
You
Crazy
Great