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Americans like to say we're fighting for democracy, and yet young Americans have come to the view that democracy doesn't deliver.

~Joseph Stiglitz

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What's going to happen is that there will be a definite consensus that Europe is not working. The diagnosis will be to shed the currency and keep the rest, or that Europe is not working and a broader rejection - like in the U.K.

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I'm enough of a political junkie to know if you have large numbers of people much worse off, you're going to have consequences.

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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.

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The financial sector has so distorted salaries that physicists are getting drawn into the financial sector. All that has led to an undersupply of people committed to the public sector.

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While it was an experiment to bring them together, nothing has divided Europe as much as the euro.

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When you're in government, you have a big impact in Washington, but Washington may not be doing very much.

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With my kids, I'm a little sappier than my father may have been.

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To someone like me, who has watched trade negotiations closely for more than a quarter-century, it is clear that U.S. trade negotiators got most of what they wanted. The problem was with what they wanted. Their agenda was set, behind closed doors, by corporations.

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Globally, manufacturing jobs are on the decline, simply because productivity growth has outpaced growth in demand.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Economist

Born: February 9th, 1943

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