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" There's a long list of investments that governments could and should be making. There is strengthening infrastructure, such as transport and communications; there is investment in education; there is investment in families, particularly putting measures in place that free women from having to make the choice between raising a family and work. "

Joseph Stiglitz

Women

Free

" I went to public schools, and while Gary was, like most American cities, racially segregated, it was at least socially integrated - a cross section of children from families of all walks of life. "

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

" For the president of the United States, reputation does matter. The reputation of the United States does matter. We are dealing with countries all over the world. They want to know if your word is good. Trump's word is not good. "

" With my kids, I'm a little sappier than my father may have been. "

" China's government has far more control over the country's economy than our government has over ours, and it is moving from export dependence to a model of growth driven by domestic demand. Any restriction on exports to the U.S. would simply accelerate a process already underway. "

" Let me put it very forcefully: No large economy has ever recovered from an economic downturn through austerity. It's not going to happen in the United States, and it's not going to happen in Europe. "

Joseph Stiglitz

Going

Economy

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

" The IP standards advanced countries favour typically are designed not to maximise innovation and scientific progress, but to maximise the profits of big pharmaceutical companies and others able to sway trade negotiations. "

" 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. "

" To maximise global social welfare, policymakers should strongly encourage the diffusion of knowledge from developed to developing countries. "

" I began my career as a physicist. And in the White House, my buddies were the people from the White House office of science and technology policy. But a lot of the people were lawyers. They like winning an argument, but science-based, evidence-based reasoning was just sort of not in their framework. "

" Those who have contributed great positive innovations to our society, from the pioneers of genetic understanding to the pioneers of the Information Age, have received a pittance compared with those responsible for the financial innovations that brought our global economy to the brink of ruin. "

" Amherst was pivotal in my broad intellectual development; MIT in my development as a professional economist. "

" With the election of Trump, America's soft power has taken a big hit. The United States has moved from a position of leadership in the creation of a rules-based international system to a position of leadership in its destruction and the creation of a regime of global protectionism. The damage will be long-lasting. "

" Donald J. Trump has the good fortune of taking office as the economy is finally recovering from the 2008 crisis. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" The reality is that what we did in 2010 with the Dodd-Frank wasn't enough. "

" 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. "

" It is always better to tax bad things than good things. "

" Ensuring preschool education for all and investing more in public schools is essential if the U.S. is to avoid becoming a neo-feudal country where advantages and disadvantages are passed on from one generation to the next. "

" Globally, manufacturing jobs are on the decline, simply because productivity growth has outpaced growth in demand. "

" Hedge funds are not noted for their long-term thinking - for them, a quarter is an eternity. "

" If Trump wants to withdraw the U.S. from the Paris climate agreement, the rest of the world should impose a carbon-adjustment tax on U.S. exports that do not comply with global standards. "

" There must have been something in the air of Gary that led one into economics: the first Nobel Prize winner, Paul Samuelson, was also from Gary, as were several other distinguished economists. "

" In debate, one randomly was assigned to one side or the other. This had at least one virtue - it made one see that there was more than one side to these complex issues. "

" 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. "

" China, with its large emerging middle class, is among the big beneficiaries of globalization. "

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