Joseph E. Stiglitz

“Information is a public good. And in a modern economy, information is central to economic success.”

“When you have a world in which people believe that they're not being treated fairly, you have a world that's unstable.”

“Austerity has been a disaster.”

“Development is about transforming the lives of people, not just transforming economies.”

“Of the people, by the people, for the people has been replaced by of the 1%, by the 1%, for the 1%.”

“The only true and sustainable prosperity is shared prosperity.”

“Secrecy is the enemy of efficiency, but the friend of corruption.”

“What you measure affects what you do. If you don't measure the right thing, you don't do the right thing.”

“The first lesson of economics is scarcity: there is never enough of anything to fully satisfy all those who want it. The first lesson of politics is to disregard the first lesson of economics.”

“Small government is not the solution, smart government is.”

“Financial markets are not self-regulating.”

“The reason that the invisible hand often seems invisible is that it is often not there.”

“Inequality is not inevitable; it is a choice.”

“The problem is not that there is too much globalization, but that there is too little.”

“Trickle-down economics is a myth. It has been tried and it has failed.”

“Modern high-tech capitalism is not just a world of winner-take-all. It is one of winner-take-most.”