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Joseph Stiglitz
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: February 9
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I don't think anybody really thinks that one should get rid of the World Bank. Reform is one thing, but getting rid of it I think would be wrong.
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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.
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The country has large unfunded liabilities - social security, health care, and there will have to be some adjustments to these problems. What is scary though is how much worse things have gotten in the last eight years, and the Iraq war is one of the main factors.
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The problem with NAFTA was with what we wanted. And there, the agenda had been set by our corporations. So what is true is that workers in the United States and workers in the developing countries were often disadvantaged. They were worse off. The big winners were our corporations.
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What you measure affects what you do. If you don't measure the right thing, you don't do the right thing.
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Anybody who has watched government from the inside recognizes that governments need institutions, need ways to respond to crises.
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The extra curricular activity in which I was most engaged - debating - helped shape my interests in public policy.
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Any society has to delegate the responsibility to maintain a certain kind of order. Enforcing regulations, making sure people stop at stoplights. We can’t function as a society without rules and regulations, and the enforcement mechanism of those rules and regulations.
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Nationalization of private debts undermines prudential lender behavior and is a government intervention in the market.
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In developing countries, lack of infrastructure is a far more serious barrier to trade than tariffs.
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Poverty is what we call the extremes at the bottom.
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When I said the pocket of the banks, it is not necessarily a mercenary relationship. It is a mindset.
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We could, of course, always make the payments, simply by printing more money - we simply promise to pay people by giving them dollar bills - but that could set off inflation.
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The issue is: $1 trillion or $2 trillion is a lot of money. If our objective is to have stability in the Middle East, secure oil, or extend democracy, you can do a lot of democracy buying for this sum. To put it in context: The whole world spends $50 billion a year on foreign aid.
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For that to happen, growth has to be very strong. To get back to normalcy, we will have to have extended growth of more than 3 percent. That's not in the cards.
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I knew that discrimination existed, even though there were many individuals who were not prejudiced.
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Not everybody is qualified to go to Stanford, but everybody should have access to the best qualify for which they are eligible.
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Unfettered market American-style capitalism doesn't work. Developing countries can't afford that kind of luxury. They just can't afford it. Period. If there's a mistake, they can't afford to put out $2 trillion.
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Trump is particularly unfit to serve because he approaches these without any view of what the truth is, and he approaches these with an enormous amount of prejudice. You cannot begin saying we want to solve the problem when you have a mindset that is against the Mexicans, against Islamists.
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Most poor people earn more than minimum wage when they are working their problem is not low wages. The problem comes when they are not working.
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