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Joseph Stiglitz

Joseph E. Stiglitz is a Nobel laureate in economics, University Professor at Columbia University, and chief economist of the Roosevelt Institute. His latest book is Globalization and Its Discontents Revisited: Anti-Globalization in the Era of Trump.

March 2024

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    Project Syndicate economists
    Joe Biden has just dealt a big defeat to big tech

    Joseph Stiglitz
    US president’s new executive order is an important step towards protecting sensitive personal data

January 2024

  • Bombed buildings in Ukraine

    Project Syndicate economists
    Russia must be held accountable over Ukraine – we should seize its assets

    Joseph Stiglitz and Andrew Kosenko
    After the EU and US failed to agree aid packages, we must send a clear message to regimes waging wars

September 2023

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    Project Syndicate economists
    Salvaging global democratic politics requires far-reaching economic reforms

    Joseph Stiglitz
    Resolving economic and political inequality is vital if we want people to reject authoritarianism

March 2023

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    Project Syndicate economists
    Silicon Valley Bank’s failure is predictable – what can it teach us?

    Joseph Stiglitz
    The collapse of SVB highlights deep failures in the conduct of regulatory and monetary policy

January 2023

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    Project Syndicate economists
    How should you fight inflation? (Spoiler alert: not with interest rate rises)

    Joseph Stiglitz
    US inflation is mainly supply-side driven so further rate hikes will have little to no effect – and cause deep problems of their own

December 2022

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    Project Syndicate economists
    Raising interest rates to tame inflation will only cause more pain

    Joseph Stiglitz
    Central banks are set on a path to cause recession – and marginalised people will pay the price

September 2022

  • A person shops at a supermarket in New York City

    Project Syndicate economists
    The Fed should pause interest rate rises as US inflation slows

    Joseph Stiglitz and Dean Baker
    It would be irresponsible to create much higher unemployment – and the US economy could be pushed into recession

June 2022

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    Project Syndicate economists
    Davos 2022 meeting was a missed opportunity over globalisation

    Joseph Stiglitz
    Business and political elite embraced new ethos at WEF without reflecting on past mistakes

February 2022

  • Credit Suisse Group headquarters in Zurich

    Suisse secrets
    Credit Suisse has allowed the morally bankrupt to steal from the poor for too long

    How many exposés will it take for Switzerland and other countries to change their laws on banking secrecy, says Joseph Stiglitz, a Nobel laureate in economics

December 2021

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    If Olaf Scholz is serious about progress, he must back a patent waiver for Covid vaccines

    Joseph Stiglitz
    Germany is already out of step with the rest of the EU on this and needs to send a strong signal to Joe Biden, says Joseph Stiglitz, a Nobel laureate in economics

November 2021

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    Project Syndicate economists
    Why the Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell must go

    Joseph Stiglitz
    Joe Biden needs someone at the top who shares his values – so step forward then please … Lael Brainard

June 2021

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    Project Syndicate economists
    Does Joe Biden’s spending plan really risk high inflation?

    Joseph Stiglitz
    We should expect price increases in the Covid recovery phase – and we have the tools to cool the economy

February 2021

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    Project Syndicate economists
    Joe Biden's $1.9tn recovery package is vital – but we can debate the detail

    Joseph Stiglitz
    Growth will generate tax revenues not just for federal government but for cash-starved states and cities

January 2021

  • Joseph Stiglitz

    Project Syndicate economists
    Is Donald Trump an aberration or a symptom of a deeper US malady?

    Joseph Stiglitz
    The underlying causes of Trump’s rise to power must be addressed, from taming social media to tackling inequality

October 2020

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    Project Syndicate economists
    How the Republican party threatens the US republic

    Joseph Stiglitz
    Without a big election victory for Democrats at all levels, Republican minority rule will be locked in indefinitely

August 2020

  • Climate change activists participate in an environmental demonstration as part of a global youth-led day of action, Friday Sept. 20, 2019, in New York. A wave of climate change protests swept across the globe Friday, with hundreds of thousands of young people sending a message to leaders headed for a U.N. summit: The warming world can’t wait for action. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)

    Letter from economists: to rebuild our world, we must end the carbon economy

    Jeffrey Sachs, Joseph Stiglitz, Mariana Mazzucato, Clair Brown, Indivar Dutta-Gupta, Robert Reich, Gabriel Zucman and others
  • A screen above the trading floor of the New York Stock Exchange

    Project Syndicate economists
    A global debt crisis is looming – how can we prevent it?

    Joseph Stiglitz and Hamid Rashid

July 2020

  • a homeless man on a mattress in Buenos Aires beneath a huge Adidas billboard

    Project Syndicate economists
    Covid-19 is no excuse for sovereign creditors to move the goalposts on debt

    Joseph Stiglitz, Robert Howse and Anne-Marie Slaughter
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    Project Syndicate economists
    Invest in the green economy and we'll recover from the Covid-19 crisis

    Joseph Stiglitz

April 2020

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    Project Syndicate economists
    World must combat looming debt meltdown in developing countries

    Joseph Stiglitz
    If international community wants to avoid wave of Covid-19 defaults it needs to start rescue plan
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