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Joseph Stiglitz Quotes

American - Economist | February 9, 1943 -

Negative interest rates hurt banks' balance sheets, with the 'wealth effect' on banks overwhelming the small increase in incentives to lend.

Joseph Stiglitz

Balance Small Negative Hurt Wealth

President Trump sees the world in transactional and zero-sum terms - if something is good for China, it must be bad for the U.S. By contrast, economists see the world in much more nuanced ways: if globalization is well-managed, it can be a positive-sum game, where both the U.S. and China gain; if it is badly managed, it can be negative-sum.

Joseph Stiglitz

Good World Game Globalization Bad

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

Joseph Stiglitz

Globalization Class China Big Middle

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

Joseph Stiglitz

Thinking Eternity Quarter Long-Term

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

America Doing Year Long Economy

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

Joseph Stiglitz

Reality Enough Did Dodd-Frank

But while I loved all of these courses, there was an irresistible attraction of economics.

Joseph Stiglitz

Economics Loved Attraction Courses

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.

Joseph Stiglitz

Economics Winner First Economists

I grew up in a family in which political issues were often discussed, and debated intensely.

Joseph Stiglitz

Family Political Up Issues Often

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.

Joseph Stiglitz

Life Children American Like Walks

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.

Joseph Stiglitz

Debate Virtue More See Side Complex

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

Brother Me Thought Better University

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