Joseph E. Stiglitz, a Nobel laureate in economics and University Professor at Columbia University, was Chairman of President Bill Clinton’s Council of Economic Advisers and served as Senior Vice President and Chief Economist of the World Bank. His most recent book is The Price of Inequality: How Today’s Divided Society Endangers our Future.
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Joseph E. Stiglitz
Commentaries by Joseph E. Stiglitz
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East Asia’s Lessons for Africa
NEW YORK – On June 1-3, Japan is hosting the fifth meeting of TICAD, the Tokyo International Cooperation on African Development. The meeting…
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Lives versus Profits
NEW YORK – The United States Supreme Court recently began deliberations in a case that highlights a deeply problematic issue concerning inte…
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A New World’s New Development Bank
NEW YORK – At the conclusion of their summit in Durban in March, the leaders of the BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa) a…
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India’s Patently Wise Decision
NEW YORK – The Indian Supreme Court’s refusal to uphold the patent on Gleevec, the blockbuster cancer drug developed by the Swiss pharmaceut…
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The Promise of Abenomics
TOKYO – Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s program for his country’s economic recovery has led to a surge in domestic confidence. But to w…
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What is Italy Saying?
NEW YORK – The outcome of the Italian elections should send a clear message to Europe’s leaders: the austerity policies that they have pursu…
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Complacency in a Leaderless World
DAVOS – The World Economic Forum’s annual meeting in Davos has lost some of its pre-crisis panache. After all, before the meltdown in 2008, …
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The Post-Crisis Crises
NEW YORK – In the shadow of the euro crisis and America’s fiscal cliff, it is easy to ignore the global economy’s long-term problems. But, w…
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A Year on the Brink
NEW YORK – The year 2012 turned out to be as bad as I thought. The recession in Europe was the predictable (and predicted) consequence of it…
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America’s Hope Against Hope
NEW YORK – After a hard-fought election campaign, costing well in excess of $2 billion, it seems to many observers that not much has changed…
Lives versus Profits
Sarchis Dolmanian: “Fortunately, what motivates most significant advances in knowledge is not profit, but the pursuit of knowledge itself. This has been true of all of the transformative discoveries and innovations – DN…
Lives versus Profits
David Peterson: I believe the patent system should be abolished! Just because one person or group discovered a method to do something does not mean they are the only who ever will. The patent system causes delays in …