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Creating a Learning Society: A New Approach to Growth, Development, and Social Progress by Joseph E. Stiglitz
Category: Culture | Series: Kenneth J. Arrow Lecture Series
It has long been recognized that most standard of living increases are associated with advances in technology, not the accumulation of capital. Yet 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. ...Show more
Efficiency, Finance, and Varieties of Industrial Policy - Guiding Resources, Learning, and Technology for Sustained Growth by Akbar Noman (Editor); Joseph E. Stiglitz (Editor)
Category: Reference | Series: Initiative for Policy Dialogue at Columbia: Challenges in Development and Globalization Ser.
Industrial policy, once relegated to resource allocation, technological improvements, and the modernization of industries, should be treated as a serious component of sustainability and developmental economics. A rich set of complimentary institutions, shared behavioral norms, and public policies have s ...Show more
Fair Trade for All: How Trade Can Promote Development by Joseph E. Stiglitz
Category: Politics and Current Affairs | Series: Initiative for Policy Dialogue Ser.
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 a r ...Show more
Freefall by Joseph E Stiglitz
Category: Business, Economics and Law
This devastating and inspiring book, by one of the world's leading economic thinkers, lays out not only the course of the financial crisis which began in 2007, but its underlying causes, and shows why much more radical reforms are needed than are currently being contemplated if we are to avoid similar ' ...Show more
Freefall: Free Markets and the Sinking of the Global Economy by Joseph Stiglitz
Category: Business Finance Management
This devastating and inspiring book, by one of the world's leading economic thinkers, lays out not only the course of the financial crisis which began in 2007, but its underlying causes, and shows why much more radical reforms are needed than are currently being contemplated if we are to avoid similar ' ...Show more
Globalization and Its Discontents by Joseph Stiglitz
Category: History
From Nobel laureate Joseph Stiglitz, Globalization and its Discontents is the bestselling expose of the all-powerful organizations that control our lives.Joseph Stiglitz's landmark book lifted the lid on how globalization was hurting those it was meant to help. Many of its predictions came true, and it ...Show more
Globalization and Its Discontents by Joseph E. Stiglitz (Professor of Finance and Economics, Columbia University, USA)
Category: Politics
Our world is changing. Globalisation is not working. It is hurting those it was meant to help. And now, the tide is turning . . . Explosive and shocking, Globalization and Its Discontents is the bestselling expose of the all-powerful organisations that control our lives - from the man who has seen them ...Show more
Globalization and Its Discontents by Joseph E. Stiglitz
Category: History
The author and winner of the Nobel Prize for Economics argues that though globalization should be a force for good, it has been mishandled by the West (espeically in its institutions, the World Bank and the IMF) and that the anti-globalizing protestors have much to say that we should listen to.
Globalization and Its Discontents Revisited: Anti-Globalization in the Era of Trump by Joseph E. Stiglitz (Columbia University)
Category: Business, Economics and Law
When it was first published, Globalization and Its Discontents quickly became a bestseller and a touchstone in the globalization debate. Renowned economist and Nobel Prize winner Joseph E. Stiglitz argued that the International Monetary Fund and other major institutions put the interests of Wall Street ...Show more
Great Divide by Joseph Stiglitz
Category: History
Why has inequality increased in the Western world - and what can we do about it? In The Great Divide, Joseph E Stiglitz expands on the diagnosis he offered in his best-selling book The Price of Inequality and suggests ways to counter this growing problem. With his characteristic blend of clarity and pas ...Show more
Making Globalization Work by Joseph E. Stiglitz
Category: History
Four years after his global bestseller, Joseph Stiglitz now brings the story up to the present, examining how change has occurred even more rapidly since then, proposing solutions and looking into the future. Here he puts forward radical new ways of dealing with the crippling indebtedness of developi ...Show more
Making Globalization Work: The Next Steps to Global Justice by Joseph Stiglitz
Category: History
Why isn't globalization benefitting as many people as it should? Joe Stiglitz shows us that things can change and that an optimistic world can exist where globalization really does work. Stiglitz examines how change has occurred rapidly over the past four years, proposing solutions and looking to the fu ...Show more