Joseph Stiglitz Quotes

Free trade is not just an economic opportunity, it is a moral imperative:

We must ensure that the global market is embedded in broadly shared values and practices that reflect global social needs, and that all the world's people share the benefits of globalization.

There are no national strategies any longer. There's only national poverty. With the global economy there are only global strategies. We're moving from a world of enemies that are national to a world of global dangers. Can you place boundaries on pollution?

Free trade is good but not as good as fair trade.

When it is fair, American workers can compete and win. I cannot support the TPP in its current form because it doesn't provide that level playing field.

Globalization can be shaped to ensure that people matter.

Not only must we fight to end disastrous unfettered free trade agreements with China, Mexico, and other low wage countries, we must fight to fundamentally rewrite our trade agreements so that American products, not jobs, are our number one export.

We must take care that globalization does not become something people become afraid of.

Engineers in the developed world should be arguing not for protectionism but for trade agreements that seek to establish rules that result in a real rise in living standards. This will ensure that outsourcing is a positive force in the developing nation's economy and not an exploitative one.

We must create a kind of globalization that works for everyone... and not just for a few.

We should change the current economic system dominated by big business groups to a one where small and medium-sized enterprises develop together.

I really believe in a globalist agenda, but globalization isn't just allowing companies to trade freely all over the world. It's about what types of rights and responsibilities come with that.

Diamonds are a key component in the campaign to make poverty history.

You need in the long run for stability, for economic growth, for jobs, as well as for financial stability, global economic institutions that make sure that growth to be sustained has to be shared, and are built on the principle that the prosperity of this world is indivisible.

I'm not opposed to free trade if it's fair trade. But I am opposed to bad trade deals.

While I believe firmly in open markets and free trade, I also believe an open market needs a level playing field.

While expanding market access for American industry, financial markets and farmers is critical, I believe it needs to be done responsibly, accounting for the treatment and protection of workers and the environment.

Right now people seem to be very tentative about the positive benefits of capitalism.

In May 2007, congressional Democrats and the Bush administration agreed to a plan to include environmental and international labor standards in upcoming trade agreements.

I am not someone who believes we should build a fence around our country but I do believe there ought to be some fairness with respect to the rules of this globalization.

We are on pace this year to have a trade deficit that is larger than $800 billion. We have never faced that before, but we continue to put forward trade agreements like these that leave us naked to competition that is neither free nor fair.

Free trade would place our farmers and workers in competition with peasant and sweated labor products.

All peoples should be assured of equitable access to markets and to essential raw materials.

Globalization today is a globalization of markets, not a globalization of democracy.

In an interdependent world …, the idea that American can have of the blessings of globalization but none of the burdens doesn’t add up.