Joseph Stiglitz quotes

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

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.

The notion that every well educated person would have a mastery of at least the basic elements of the humanities, sciences, and social sciences is a far cry from the specialized education that most students today receive, particularly in the research universities.

Economists often like startling theorems, results which seem to run counter to conventional wisdom.

High levels of economic inequality lead to imbalances in political power, as those at the top use their economic weight to shape our politics in ways that give them more economic power.

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.

If there is a silver lining in the Trump cloud, it is a new sense of solidarity over core values such as tolerance and equality, sustained by awareness of the bigotry and misogyny, whether hidden or open, that Trump and his team embody.

What separates developing countries from developed countries is as much a gap in knowledge as a gap in resources.

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

Amherst is a liberal arts college, committed to providing students with a broad education.