Joseph Stiglitz Quotes About Debate

Quotes about: Debate

• There will come a moment when the most urgent threats posed by the credit crisis have eased and the larger task before us will be to chart a direction for the economic steps ahead. This will be a dangerous moment. Behind the debates over future policy is a debate over history-a debate over the causes of our current situation. The battle for the past will determine the battle for the present. So it's crucial to get the history straight.

  Joseph Stiglitz

  Past, Battle, Causes

• In debate, one randomly was assigned to one side or the other. This had at least one virtue - it made one see that there was more than one side to these complex issues.

  Joseph Stiglitz

  Issues, Sides, Debate

  Biographical, www.nobelprize.org. 2001.

• In the early 1990s, there was a debate among economists over shock therapy versus a gradualism strategy for Russia. The people in Russia who believed in shock therapy were Bolsheviks a few people at the top that rammed it down everybody's throat. They viewed the democratic process as a real impediment to reform.

  Joseph Stiglitz

  Real, People, Debate

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