top of page
Quote_1.png
Joseph E. Stiglitz

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

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

Exlpore more Economy quotes

Quote_1.png
Donna Grant

"Since we took office, inflation, the fiscal deficit and the balance of payments current account deficit have all fallen. GDP growth, foreign exchange reserves, stock market valuations, and investor confidence have all increased. This success is the result of a series of well thought out policies."

Author Name

Personal Development

Quote_1.png
Donna Grant

"Economic growth cannot only be restricted to a few cities and a few citizens. Development has to be all-round and all-inclusive."

Author Name

Personal Development

Quote_1.png
Donna Grant

"Belonging to the working class is the economy's punishment for those who did what they were told to do in class."

Author Name

Personal Development

Quote_1.png
Donna Grant

"Employment is the biggest form of slavery."

Author Name

Personal Development

Quote_1.png
Donna Grant

"Because of the power that we have given money: The government would rather have taxpayers who do not vote, than voters who do not pay tax."

Author Name

Personal Development

Quote_1.png
Donna Grant

"Not every single broke and unemployed person needs a job, some need customers."

Author Name

Personal Development

Quote_1.png
Donna Grant

"That some should be rich shows that others may become rich and hence is just encouragement to industry and enterprise."

Author Name

Personal Development

Quote_1.png
Donna Grant

"A reputation for money is almost as negotiable as money itself."

Author Name

Personal Development

Quote_1.png
Donna Grant

"A poor man knows the true value of money and will not dare waste it, but a rich man is extravagant and always looking for an opportunity to empty his pockets."

Author Name

Personal Development

Quote_1.png
Donna Grant

"The United States dollar took another pounding on German, French and British exchanges this morning, hitting the lowest point ever known in West Germany."

Author Name

Personal Development

Explore more quotes by Joseph E. Stiglitz

Quote_1.png
Joseph E. Stiglitz
"I grew up in a family in which political issues were often discussed, and debated intensely."

Family

Quote_1.png
Joseph E. Stiglitz
"My teachers helped guide and motivate me; but the responsibility of learning was left with me, an approach to learning which was later reinforced by my experiences at Amherst."

Learning

Quote_1.png
Joseph E. Stiglitz
"I recognized that information was, in many respects, like a public good, and it was this insight that made it clear to me that it was unlikely that the private market would provide efficient resource allocations whenever information was endogenous."

Information

Quote_1.png
Joseph E. Stiglitz
"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?"

Economy

Quote_1.png
Joseph E. Stiglitz
"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."

Work

Quote_1.png
Joseph E. Stiglitz
"Economists often like startling theorems, results which seem to run counter to conventional wisdom."

Wisdom

Quote_1.png
Joseph E. Stiglitz
"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."

Sports

Quote_1.png
Joseph E. Stiglitz
"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."

Change

Quote_1.png
Joseph E. Stiglitz
"But while I loved all of these courses, there was an irresistible attraction of economics."

Economy

Quote_1.png
Joseph E. Stiglitz
"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."

Virtue

bottom of page