«(...)
the difficulties that we are facing now are not the result of the
inexorable laws of economics, to which we simply must adjust, as we
would to a natural disaster, like an earthquake or tsunami. They are
not even a kind of penance that we have to
pay for past sins – though, to be sure, the neoliberal policies
that have prevailed for the past three decades have much to do with
our current predicament.»
Joseph
Stiglitz, 06/02/2014, Social Europe