Quotes Joseph E. Stiglitz

Amherst is a liberal arts college, committed to providing st...

Amherst was pivotal in my broad intellectual development; MI...

Another project that I began in Cambridge concerned the inte...

As I noted in my Nobel lecture, an early insight in my work ...

But individuals and firms spend an enormous amount of resour...

But while I loved all of these courses, there was an irresis...

Certainly, the poverty, the discrimination, the episodic une...

Economists often like startling theorems, results which seem...

I approached the problem as a series of thought experiments ...

I grew up in a family in which political issues were often d...

I knew that discrimination existed, even though there were m...

I recognized that information was, in many respects, like a ...

I think in part the reason is that seeing an economy that is...

I went to Amherst because my brother had gone there before m...

I went to public schools, and while Gary was, like most Amer...

I, like many members of my generation, was concerned with se...

If stability and efficiency required that there existed mark...

In debate, one randomly was assigned to one side or the othe...

Much of my work in this period was concerned with exploring ...

My research in this period centered around growth, technical...

My teachers helped guide and motivate me; but the responsibi...

My work on the economics of uncertainty led naturally to the...

The extra curricular activity in which I was most engaged - ...

The notion that every well educated person would have a mast...

There must have been something in the air of Gary that led o...