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Joseph Eugene Stiglitz (/ ˈ s t ɪ ɡ l ɪ t s /; born February 9, 1943) is an American New Keynesian economist, [2] a public policy analyst, political activist, and a professor at Columbia University.
The title of the book points at the sharp decline in stock prices following the bankruptcy of the investment bank Lehman Brothers in September, 2008. Meanwhile, its subtitle reveals Stiglitz's conviction that free markets are at the bottom of the crisis, as he makes deregulation responsible for the rise of the shadow banking system, over-leveraged banks and subprime mortgages.
Globalization and Its Discontents is a book published in 2002 by the 2001 Nobel laureate Joseph E. Stiglitz. The title is a reference to Freud's Civilization and Its Discontents. The book draws on Stiglitz's personal experience as chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers under Bill Clinton from 1993 and chief economist at the World Bank from
Last month, I sat down with Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz in his office at Columbia Business School. Stiglitz has well-known criticisms about the country's high rate of wealth ...
Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz flagged major concerns for the economy under President Trump, claiming fluctuating policies put the nation at risk of stagflation. “It risks the ...
Joseph Stiglitz: Wall Street got dangerous when it was managed by people who didn't understand the limits of those models and by the guys who are doing the models, many of them were not economists ...
Edsall added that "Stiglitz may prove most prescient when he warns of a society governed by 'rules of the game that weaken the bargaining strength of workers vis-à-vis capital.' [1] A review in The Economist was mainly positive, noting that "Stiglitz is (mostly) skilled at making his argument." However, the reviewer wrote, "Mr Stiglitz's ...
Goldman Sachs employees make a lot of money. Some people look down on them for that. They were a prime target of Occupy Wall Street two years ago. Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook has made far more ...