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

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• Joseph Stiglitz:

  My teachers helped guide and motivate me; but the responsibility of learning was left with me, an a

• Joseph Stiglitz:

  In debate, one randomly was assigned to one side or the other. This had at least one virtue - it ma

• Joseph Stiglitz:

  I went to Amherst because my brother had gone there before me, and he went there because his guidan

• Joseph Stiglitz:

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

• Joseph Stiglitz:

  The notion that every well educated person would have a mastery of at least the basic elements of t

• Joseph Stiglitz:

  But while I loved all of these courses, there was an irresistible attraction of economics.

• Joseph Stiglitz:

  I, like many members of my generation, was concerned with segregation and the repeated violation of

• Joseph Stiglitz:

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

• Joseph Stiglitz:

  My research in this period centered around growth, technical change, and income distribution, both

• Joseph Stiglitz:

  If stability and efficiency required that there existed markets that extended infinitely far into t