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Joseph E. Stiglitz is an American economist and professor at Columbia University.
Known for: Globalization and Its Discontents, Globalization and Its Discontents Revisited: Anti-Globalization in the Era of Trump, People, Power, and Profits: Progressive Capitalism for an Age of Discontent, The Price of Inequality: How Today's Divided Society Endangers Our Future
Books by Joseph E. Stiglitz
Globalization and Its Discontents
In this influential work, Nobel laureate Joseph E. Stiglitz critiques the policies of major international financial institutions such as the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank, and the World ...
Globalization and Its Discontents Revisited: Anti-Globalization in the Era of Trump
In this expanded and updated edition of his influential 2002 work, Nobel laureate Joseph E. Stiglitz revisits the promises and failures of globalization. He examines how global economic policies, part...
People, Power, and Profits: Progressive Capitalism for an Age of Discontent
In this book, Nobel Prize–winning economist Joseph E. Stiglitz argues that the United States has strayed from the principles that once made its economy strong and fair. He examines how unchecked corpo...
The Price of Inequality: How Today's Divided Society Endangers Our Future
In this influential work, Nobel Prize–winning economist Joseph E. Stiglitz examines how growing economic inequality undermines democracy, distorts markets, and threatens the stability of societies. He...
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The Promise of Globalization
When economists speak of globalization, we often begin with its remarkable theoretical potential. Integrated markets can increase efficiency; trade allows nations to specialize and thus produce and consume more; capital flows can bring investment where it is most needed. In such a perfect world, eve...
From Globalization and Its Discontents
The Role of the International Monetary Fund (IMF)
The International Monetary Fund was initially created to ensure global financial stability, to help countries in balance-of-payments trouble avoid the downward spiral of depression and protectionism. But by the 1990s, the IMF had evolved into something quite different—a gatekeeper of the developing ...
From Globalization and Its Discontents
The Promise and Failure of Globalization
Globalization was sold to the world as a vehicle for universal progress. The idea was that free trade and liberalized capital flows would allow every country to specialize, grow, and share in global prosperity. The institutional architecture—the IMF, the World Bank, the WTO—was designed to ensure th...
From Globalization and Its Discontents Revisited: Anti-Globalization in the Era of Trump
Institutions of Global Governance
The IMF, World Bank, and WTO were conceived to manage interdependence in a post-war world. Their mandate was noble: maintain financial stability, foster reconstruction, and promote equitable trade. Yet over the decades, these institutions became enforcers of an economic orthodoxy known as neoliberal...
From Globalization and Its Discontents Revisited: Anti-Globalization in the Era of Trump
Historical Context: America’s Postwar Promise
To understand where we are, we must recall where we’ve been. After World War II, the United States built an economy rooted in shared prosperity, with policies that fostered education, homeownership, innovation, and a burgeoning middle class. Progressive taxation funded public infrastructure and rese...
From People, Power, and Profits: Progressive Capitalism for an Age of Discontent
The Erosion of Equality
When inequality becomes extreme, it corrodes everything it touches—the economy, democracy, social trust, even individual aspiration. The data are unequivocal: over the past four decades, while GDP has risen, the vast majority of Americans have seen little improvement in living standards. Productivit...
From People, Power, and Profits: Progressive Capitalism for an Age of Discontent
About Joseph E. Stiglitz
Joseph E. Stiglitz is an American economist and professor at Columbia University. He received the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 2001 for his analyses of markets with asymmetric information. Stiglitz has served as Chief Economist of the World Bank and Chairman of the U.S. President’s C...
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Joseph E. Stiglitz is an American economist and professor at Columbia University. He received the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 2001 for his analyses of markets with asymmetric information. Stiglitz has served as Chief Economist of the World Bank and Chairman of the U.S. President’s C...
Joseph E. Stiglitz is an American economist and professor at Columbia University. He received the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 2001 for his analyses of markets with asymmetric information. Stiglitz has served as Chief Economist of the World Bank and Chairman of the U.S. President’s Council of Economic Advisers. He is known for his critical views on globalization and market fundamentalism.
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