Joseph Stiglitz Quotes About Choices

Quotes about: Choices

• 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 Stiglitz

  Meaningful, Real, Years

• In the midst of the East Asian crisis, there were choices. One choice would have been to encourage countries to implement a bankruptcy law that could have threatened the interests of the lenders. Workers' rights should be a central focus of development. But nowhere did issues of workers' rights, including the right to participate in the decisions which would affect their lives in so many ways, get raised.

  Joseph Stiglitz

  Country, Choices, Focus

• I don't think if we had been able to make that choice rationally, we would have said that's what we want to do. We would have said: "Can't we save the banks and solve our health care problems?" The answer is yes. You could have.

  Joseph Stiglitz

  Thinking, Choices, Answers

  Interview with Amitabh Pal, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. May 27, 2011.

• I find it scandalous not only that there was so little discussion of the costs of the Iraq war before we went to war - this was, after all, a war of choice - but even five years into the war, the Administration has not provided a comprehensive accounting of the war.

  Joseph Stiglitz

  War, Choices, Iraq War

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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