“For Obama, the Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement - unilaterally abro...” — Joseph Stiglitz Quote

“For Obama, the Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement - unilaterally abrogated by Trump - was part of the 'pivot to Asia,' a re-assertion of the role of America in that part of the world.”

“One of the things that happens when you have austerity is that wages get lower, and some people think lower wages in the short run can increase corporate profits.”

“Much of my work in this period was concerned with exploring the logic of economic models, but also with attempting to reconcile the models with every day observation.”

“Race in America has always centered on our mutual agreement not to see each other. White or non-white. Black or non-black. Mongoloid, Hindoo. We've always bought into to the crudest, humanity-denying forms of sorting.”

“The Paris Agreement is, in fact, a historic one because it marks the culmination of a phase of very long, drawn-out negotiations involving more than 190 countries. Why is it historic? Because it shows the way for our societies to change from the ground up, to create an economy that only depends on fossil fuels to a very slight degree.”