Joseph E Stiglitz: 31 books
Creating a Learning Society
A New Approach to Growth, Development, and Social Progress
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2014
It has long been recognized that an improved standard of living results from advances in technology, not from the accumulation of capital. It has also become clear that what truly separates developed from less-developed countries is not just a gap in resources or output but a gap in knowledge. In...
by Joseph E. Stiglitz
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2007
"A damning denunciation of things as they are, and a platform for how we can do better."--Andrew Leonard, Salon
Four years after he outlined the challenges our increasingly interdependent world was facing in Globalization and Its Discontents, Joseph E. Stiglitz offered his agenda...
by Joseph E. Stiglitz, Andrew Charlton
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2007
Winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics and author of the New York Times bestselling book Globalization and Its Discontents, Joseph E. Stiglitz here joins with fellow economist Andrew Charlton to offer a challenging and controversial argument about how globalization can actually help Third World countries...
Divided
The Perils of Our Growing Inequality
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
Essays on the dangers of the wealth and income gap, collected by the New York Times–bestselling author of It’s Even Worse Than You Think.
This collection includes writings by a wide range of voices—including Adam Smith, Elizabeth Warren, Barbara Ehrenreich, Joseph E. Stiglitz, Studs Terkel,...
by Joseph E. Stiglitz
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2011
How one of the greatest economic expansions in history sowed the seeds of its own collapse.
With his best-selling Globalization and Its Discontents, Joseph E. Stiglitz showed how a misplaced faith in free-market ideology led to many of the recent problems suffered by the developing nations....
Fair Trade For All: How Trade Can Promote Development
How Trade Can Promote Development
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2005
How can the poorer countries of the world be helped to help themselves through freer, fairer trade? In this challenging and controversial book Nobel prize-winning economist Joseph E. Stiglitz and his co-author Andrew Charlton address one of the key issues facing world leaders today. They put forward...
Global Carbon Pricing
The Path to Climate Cooperation
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2017
Why the traditional “pledge and review” climate agreements have failed, and how carbon pricing, based on trust and reciprocity, could succeed.
After twenty-five years of failure, climate negotiations continue to use a “pledge and review” approach: countries pledge (almost anything),...
by Linda J. Bilmes, Joseph E. Stiglitz
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2008
The true cost of the Iraq War is $3 trillion—and counting—rather than the $50 billion projected by the White House.
Apart from its tragic human toll, the Iraq War will be staggeringly expensive in financial terms. This sobering study by Nobel Prize winner Joseph E. Stiglitz and Harvard...
In the Wake of the Crisis
Leading Economists Reassess Economic Policy
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2012
Prominent economists reconsider the fundamentals of economic policy for a post-crisis world.
In 2011, the International Monetary Fund invited prominent economists and economic policymakers to consider the brave new world of the post-crisis global economy. The result is a book that captures...
by Robert C. Lind, Kenneth J. Arrow, Gordon R. Corey
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2013
This is a collection of theoretical papers, including contributions by Partha Dasgupta and three Nobel prize-winning economists: Kenneth Arrow, Amartya Sen, and Joseph Stiglitz. Originally published in 1982.
Mismeasuring Our Lives
Why GDP Doesn't Add Up
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2010
In February of 2008, amid the looming global financial crisis, President Nicolas Sarkozy of France asked Nobel Prizewinning economists Joseph Stiglitz and Amartya Sen, along with the distinguished French economist Jean Paul Fitoussi, to establish a commission of leading economists to study whether...
Europe on the Brink
Debt Crisis and Dissent in the European Periphery
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2014
Europe is suffering from a bipolar economic disorder. Financial journalists divide the continent into two groups of nations - centre and periphery - not by geography but by credit rating. Europe on the Brink is a critical investigation of the root causes of this sovereign debt crisis, and the often...
Towards a General Theory of Deep Downturns
Presidential Address from the 17th World Congress of the International Economic Association in 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2016
Joseph Stiglitz examines the theory behind the economic downturns that have plagued our world in recent times. This fascinating three-part lecture acknowledges the failure of economic models to successfully predict the 2008 crisis and explores alternative models which, if adopted, could potentially restore a stable and prosperous economy.
by Joseph E. Stiglitz
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2015
It’s time to rewrite the rules—to curb the runaway flow of wealth to the top one percent, to restore security and opportunity for the middle class, and to foster stronger growth rooted in broadly shared prosperity.
Inequality is a choice.
The United States bills itself as the land...