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The delicate and intricate pattern of competition and cooperation in the economic behavior of the hundreds of thousands of citizens of Stockholm offers a challenge to the economist that is perhaps as complex as the challenges of the physicist and the chemist. ↗

— George Stigler

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Fear and I were old buddies, despite my best efforts to the contrary. ↗

— Peter Straub

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Amherst is a liberal arts college, committed to providing students with a broad education. ↗

— 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. ↗

— Joseph Stiglitz

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If stability and efficiency required that there existed markets that extended infinitely far into the future - and these markets clearly did not exist - what assurance do we have of the stability and efficiency of the capitalist system? ↗

— Joseph Stiglitz

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All the forms of civil polity have been tried by mankind, except one, and that seems to have been reserved in Providence to be realized in America. ↗

— Ezra Stiles

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What do I do when we're not taping? Sit in a dark room and refine my plans for someday ruling Earth from a blimp. And chess. ↗

— Ryan Stiles

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

— Joseph Stiglitz

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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. ↗

— Joseph Stiglitz

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

— Joseph Stiglitz

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