Joseph Stiglitz

China-led globalization in some ways worries me because they are not concerned about human rights, labor rights. They probably aren't even really concerned about competitive marketplaces. So in some ways, they're like Mr. Trump.

I knew that discrimination existed, even though there were many individuals who were not prejudiced.

I, like many members of my generation, was concerned with segregation and the repeated violation of civil rights.

The IP standards advanced countries favour typically are designed not to maximise innovation and scientific progress, but to maximise the profits of big pharmaceutical companies and others able to sway trade negotiations.

If manufacturing jobs do come back to the U.S., they will be done by robots in hi-tech parts of the country rather than the Rust Belt states.

Trump can bring jobs back, but they will be minimal-wage jobs, not the high-paying jobs of the 1950s.

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.

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

The extra curricular activity in which I was most engaged - debating - helped shape my interests in public policy.

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

Macroeconomic policy can never be devoid of politics: it involves fundamental trade-offs and affects different groups differently.

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.