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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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…
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America’s Global Election
NEW YORK – Most people around the world will not be able to vote in the United States’s upcoming presidential election, even though they hav…
Lives versus Profits
Paul Peters: In an information rich world, people can be provided enough information to make a choice on which company they prefer to buy from and which one not. There are many of such conformal habits which come …
Lives versus Profits
Leo Arouet: Notable artículo. Las patentes están siendo la barrera para la innovación y el medio por el que las empresas farmacéuticas son notablemente son beneficiadas, inclusive a costo de las personas que son …