Economics has been called the dismal science, and 2023 will vindicate that moniker. We are at the mercy of two cataclysms that are…
Joseph Stiglitz
It’s well known by now that income and wealth inequality in most rich countries, especially the United States, have soared in recent…
The following is taken from a transcript of Joseph Stiglitz's remarks to the AFL-CIO convention in Los Angeles on September 8. I'm…
The controversy over the choice of the next head of the Federal Reserve has become unusually heated. The country is fortunate to…
The 1 Percent’s Problem http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/2012/05/joseph-stiglitz-the-price-on-inequality Vanity Fair Joseph E. Stiglitz Let’s start by laying down the baseline premise: inequality in America has…
This year’s annual meeting of the International Monetary Fund made clear that Europe and the international community remain rudderless when it comes…
Austerity policies are driving us towards a double-dip recession, warns US economist Joseph Stiglitz. He sat down with Martin Eiermann to discuss…
It has now been almost five years since the bursting of the housing bubble, and four years since the onset of the…
The only good thing about the continuing barrage of bad economic news is that it could have been worse: all three rating…
Just a few years ago, a powerful ideology – the belief in free and unfettered markets – brought the world to the…
