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Joseph Stiglitz
Data di nascita: 9. Febbraio 1943
Altri nomi:Joseph Eugene Stiglitz
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Joseph Eugene Stiglitz è un economista e saggista statunitense. Premio Nobel per l'economia nel 2001.
Frasi Joseph Stiglitz
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„Development is about transforming the lives of people, not just transforming economies.“
— Joseph E. Stiglitz, Making Globalization Work
„There are two visions of America a half century from now. One is of a society more divided between the haves and the have-nots, a country in which the rich live in gated communities, send their children to expensive schools, and have access to first-rate medical care. Meanwhile, the rest live in a world marked by insecurity, at best mediocre education, and in effect rationed health care―they hope and pray they don't get seriously sick. At the bottom are millions of young people alienated and without hope. I have seen that picture in many developing countries; economists have given it a name, a dual economy, two societies living side by side, but hardly knowing each other, hardly imagining what life is like for the other. Whether we will fall to the depths of some countries, where the gates grow higher and the societies split farther and farther apart, I do not know. It is, however, the nightmare towards which we are slowly marching.“
— Joseph E. Stiglitz, The Price of Inequality: How Today's Divided Society Endangers Our Future
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„To put it baldly, there are two ways to become wealthy: to create wealth or to take wealth away from others. The former adds to society. The latter typically subtracts from it, for in the process of taking it away, wealth gets destroyed. A monopolist who overcharges for his product takes money from those whom he is overcharging and at the same time destroys value. To get his monopoly price, he has to restrict production.“
— Joseph E. Stiglitz, The Price of Inequality: How Today's Divided Society Endangers Our Future
„Of all the costs imposed on our society by the top 1 percent, perhaps the greatest is this: the erosion of our sense of identity in which fair play, equality of opportunity, and a sense of community are so important.“
— Joseph E. Stiglitz, The Price of Inequality: How Today's Divided Society Endangers Our Future
„The more divided a society becomes in terms of wealth, the more reluctant the wealthy are to spend money on common needs. The rich don’t need to rely on government for parks or education or medical care or personal security.“
— Joseph E. Stiglitz, The Price of Inequality: How Today's Divided Society Endangers Our Future
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„The protesters have called into question whether there is a real democracy. Real democracy is more than the right to vote once every two or four years. The choices have to be meaningful. But increasingly, and especially in the US, it seems that the political system is more akin to "one dollar one vote" than to "one person one vote". Rather than correcting the market failures, the political system was reinforcing them.“
— Joseph E. Stiglitz, The Price of Inequality
„The budgetary cost to the UK of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan through 2010 will total more than £18 billion. If we include the social costs the total impact will exceed £20 billion.“
— Joseph E. Stiglitz, The Three Trillion Dollar War: The True Cost Of The Iraq Conflict
„Overborrowing or overlending? Lenders encourage indebtedness because it is profitable. Developing country governments are sometimes even pressured to overborrow... Even without corruption, it is easy to be influenced by Western businessmen and financiers... Countries that aren't sure that borrowing is worth the rist are told how important it is to establis a credit rating: borrow even if you really don't need the money.“
— Joseph E. Stiglitz, Making Globalization Work
