Dirty Hippies Whining For A Free Lunch
 

This thread is a place to post examples that support the idea bandied about on this thread that the Occupy movement is entirely peopled with LSD tripping, patchouli-instead-of-a-shower wearing, birkenstock-walking, pinko hippie communists bent on pulling a robin hood on America.

Joseph Eugene Stiglitz, ForMemRS, FBA, (born February 9, 1943) is an American economist and a professor at Columbia University. He is a recipient of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences (2001) and the John Bates Clark Medal (1979). He is also the former Senior Vice President and Chief Economist of the World Bank. He is known for his critical view of the management of globalization, free-market economists (whom he calls "free market fundamentalists") and some international institutions like the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank.
In 2000, Stiglitz founded the Initiative for Policy Dialogue (IPD), a think tank on international development based at Columbia University. Since 2001, he has been a member of the Columbia faculty, and has been a University Professor since 2003. He also chairs the University of Manchester's Brooks World Poverty Institute and is a member of the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences. Stiglitz is an honorary doctor of Durham Business School<sup id="cite_ref-0" class="reference">[1]</sup>, an honorary professor at Tsinghua University School of Public Policy and Management and a member of the Executive and Supervisory Committee (ESC) of CERGE-EI. Stiglitz is one of the most frequently cited economists in the world.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference">[2]</sup>


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Joseph Stiglitz - Dirty Hippie

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000...520372002.html

I read until the WSJ (the ultimate in inner-party propaganda) called him "an economist named Stiglitz."

Hell, I don't know SHIT about economics, but even I know (barely) who Joseph Stiglitz is. To downplay him like that, regardless of how you feel about his message is disingenuous to the point of outright misrepresentation.

GTFO Bronson, you may be educated, but obviously you haven't learned shit.

Wake up, man.

lol

How am I downplaying him?

He was about as wrong a person can possibly be in regards to the most important economic event any of us will ever see in our lives. Why are you now pretending like this man is beyond critique?

per cent

wtf

Hasbinbad has never had an original thought pop into that drug-addled mush of a brain. He just remembers stupid shit he saw on youtube while high.

Reread, only this time assume the meaning of my ambiguous statement was that the WSJ downplayed him, and the "you" was 3rd person.

Also, I'm not saying you're wrong about that.. I honestly don't know enough about it.

That being said, it doesn't make his quote in the picture in the OP any less true.

OKay Stiglitz was pres of world bank dont care what he has 2 say

haha yea I am so on the money with these goons

). At the World Bank, he served as Senior Vice President and Chief Economist (1997 – 2000), in the time when unprecedented protest against international economic organizations started, most prominently with the Seattle WTO meeting of 1999. He was fired by the World Bank for expressing dissent with its policies.[10] He was a lead author for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.