Joseph E. Stiglitz

Born 9 February 1943

From Gary, Indiana, United States · Nationality: United States · Writes nonfiction

Quotes

“The reason that the invisible hand often seems invisible is that it is often not there.”
Quoted in Daniel Altman, "Managing Globalization: Q & A with Joseph Stiglitz", T
“The fall of Wall Street is for market fundamentalism what the fall of the Berlin Wall was for communism.”
Interview with Nathan Gardels, The Huffington Post, September 16th 2008
“And in all of our courses, we were taught that what mattered most was asking the right question — having posed the question well, answering the question was often a relatively easy matter.”
Autobiographical Essay
“When I was at the World Bank, it would often be said in the face of obvious failure that our strategy was correct, it just wasn’t implemented well.”
Making globalization work, p. 52
“Most poor people earn more than minimum wage when they are working; their problem is not low wages. The problem comes when they are not working.”
Economics 1993 .

Books by Joseph E. Stiglitz in order

Books by Joseph E. Stiglitz in the order they were published, from Economics of the Public Sector (1986) to Camino De Libertad (2025).