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The Price of Inequality
“I wrote in 2012 the book The Price of Inequality, and a couple of years later, The Great Divide.”
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Joseph Stiglitz
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If you have unfettered building — for instance, you don’t have any zoning — you can have a building as high as you want. The problem is that your high building deprives another building of light.
“If you have unfettered building — for instance, you don’t have any zoning — you can have a building as high as you want. The problem is that your high building deprives another building of light.”
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- Joseph Stiglitz
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- Joseph Stiglitz on Pioneering Economic Theories, Policy Challenges, and His Intellectual Legacy
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- Conversations with Tyler
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I actually think it’s had an enormous cost to the whole, I would say, Western Hemisphere because of the flood of migrants from Venezuela.
“I actually think it’s had an enormous cost to the whole, I would say, Western Hemisphere because of the flood of migrants from Venezuela.”
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- Joseph Stiglitz
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- Joseph Stiglitz on Pioneering Economic Theories, Policy Challenges, and His Intellectual Legacy
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- Conversations with Tyler
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In my mind, the more critical issues in strategic trade policy that we’re facing today are not those that Paul Krugman argued for based on our monopolistic competition model some quarter-century ago, and for which he got the Nobel Prize working off of our model.
“In my mind, the more critical issues in strategic trade policy that we’re facing today are not those that Paul Krugman argued for based on our monopolistic competition model some quarter-century ago, and for which he got the Nobel Prize working off of our model.”
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- Joseph Stiglitz
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- Joseph Stiglitz on Pioneering Economic Theories, Policy Challenges, and His Intellectual Legacy
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- Conversations with Tyler
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Actually, it really is an argument that to understand how labor markets work — or any market for that matter, because we look at the labor market, but we point out, it’s through product markets — one has to take on board the fact that there’s imperfect information, and in that particular case, imperfect monitoring of what workers are doing, and that you have to have an incentive to make sure that they work well.
“Actually, it really is an argument that to understand how labor markets work — or any market for that matter, because we look at the labor market, but we point out, it’s through product markets — one has to take on board the fact that there’s imperfect information, and in that particular case, imperfect monitoring of what workers are doing, and that you have to have an incentive to make sure that they work well.”
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- Joseph Stiglitz
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- Joseph Stiglitz on Pioneering Economic Theories, Policy Challenges, and His Intellectual Legacy
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- Conversations with Tyler
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I think what matters is not the money supply, not the interest rate; it’s the credit availability of monetary policy, so it’s the mechanism.
“I think what matters is not the money supply, not the interest rate; it’s the credit availability of monetary policy, so it’s the mechanism.”
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- Joseph Stiglitz
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- Joseph Stiglitz on Pioneering Economic Theories, Policy Challenges, and His Intellectual Legacy
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- Conversations with Tyler
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We made the obvious observation that if that were the case, there would be no incentive for anybody to gather information.
“We made the obvious observation that if that were the case, there would be no incentive for anybody to gather information.”
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- Joseph Stiglitz
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- Joseph Stiglitz on Pioneering Economic Theories, Policy Challenges, and His Intellectual Legacy
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- Conversations with Tyler