Joseph Stiglitz

My teachers helped guide and motivate me; but the responsibility of learning was left with me, an approach to learning which was later reinforced by my experiences at Amherst.

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These are some quotes by American author Joseph Stiglitz Economist, who was born on February 9, 1943.

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Economists often like startling theorems, results which seem to run counter to conventional wisdom.

Joseph Stiglitz

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Amherst was pivotal in my broad intellectual development; MIT in my development as a professional economist.

Joseph Stiglitz

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I think in part the reason is that seeing an economy that is, in many ways, quite different from the one grows up in, helps crystallize issues: in one's own environment, one takes too much for granted, without asking why things are the way they are.

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