Joseph E. Stiglitz
Appointments
Columbia University
University Professor, teaching at the Columbia Business School, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Department of Economics, and the School of International and Public Affairs.
Initiative for Policy Dialogue (IPD)
Founder and Co-President
The Roosevelt Institute
Chief Economist
Independent Commission for the Reform of International Corporate Taxation (ICRICT)
Co-Chair
High-Level Expert Group on the Measurement of Economic Performance and Social Progress, OECD
Co-Chair
Open Letters
- Global Leaders Renew Call for Justice for Professor Yunus, January 28, 2024.
- Put the UN in Charge of International Taxation, Project Syndicate, November 21, 2023.
- G20 Leaders Must Tax Extreme Wealth, Patriotic Millionaires, Oxfam, Millionaires for Humanity, Earth4All, Institute for Policy Studies, September 5, 2023.
- Global Leaders and Nobel Laureates Call for Ending the Persecution of Muhammad Yunus, August 29, 2023.
Articles and OpEds
- Freedom for the Wolves, The Atlantic, April 22, 2024.
- Quality Journalism Is More Important than Ever, with Anya Schiffrin and Dylan W. Groves, Project Syndicate, April 17, 2024.
- Big Tech Is Trying to Prevent Debate About Its Social Harms, Foreign Policy, April 4, 2024.
- A Big Defeat for Big Tech, Project Syndicate, March 18, 2024.
- The Biden Administration vs. Climate Youth, Project Syndicate, March 13, 2024.
- How to Enforce Climate Agreements with Trade Measures, with Scott Barrett and Noah Kaufman, Project Syndicate, January 25, 2024.
- The Biden Administration’s Recent Antitrust Wins Help Us All, Project Syndicate, January 10, 2024.
- Time for a Victory Lap? American Prospect, January 4, 2024.
- Seizing Russia’s Frozen Assets Is the Right Move, with Andrew Kosenko, Project Syndicate, January 4, 2024.
Speeches and Panels
- The Path for Taxing the Super-Rich: Towards a Progressive Global Taxation Agenda, with Esther Duflo, Gabriel Zucman, Ndzana Olomo Patrick, Chenai Mukumba and Katherine Baer, International Monetary Fund, April 18, 2024.
- Development and Debt Challenges in Latin America and the Global South, with Martin Guzman, University of Texas, Austin, April 12, 2024.
- How sustainable is our national debt? - Oral evidence, UK House of Lords Economic Affairs Committee, March 5, 2024.
- Claudia Sahm & Joseph Stiglitz: A Discussion on Post-Pandemic Inflation - Monetary Policy Institute, February 8, 2024.
- Navigating in Tumultuous Waters: The Year Ahead, Hong Kong University Business School, January 17, 2024.
Latest on Juliana v. United States
- Plaintiffs-Appellees’ Answering Brief filed with the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals.
- The climate change lawsuit that could stop the U.S. government from supporting fossil fuels, 60 Minutes, aired March 3, 2019.
Papers and Briefs
Working Papers
- Are Supply Networks Efficiently Resilient?, with Agostino Capponi and Chuan Du, NBER Working Paper No. 32221. March, 2024.
- The Economics of Information in a World of Disinformation: A Survey Part 1: Indirect Communication, with Andrew Kosenko, NBER Working Paper No. 32049. January, 2024.
- The Economics of Information in a World of Disinformation: A Survey Part 2: Direct Communication, with Andrew Kosenko, NBER Working Paper No. 32050. January, 2024.
Published Papers
- Rethinking Global Governance: Cooperation in a World of Power, with Dani Rodrik, March, 2024.
- The Godley-Tobin Memorial Lecture: Neoliberalism, Keynesian economics, and responding to today’s inflation, Review of Keynesian Economics, Vol. 12 (1), Spring, 2024, pp. 1-26.
- A New Growth Strategy for Developing Nations, with Dani Rodrik, January, 2024.
Amicus Briefs
- "Brief of Joseph E. Stiglitz as Amicus Curiae in Support of Petitioners," in the Supreme Court of the United States, States, Petitioners, v. American Express Company and American Express Travel Related Services Company, Inc, December 14, 2017.
- “Brief of Joseph E. Stiglitz as Amicus Curiae in Support of Petitioners,” for Republic of Argentina, Petitioner, v. NML Capital Ltd., et al., Respondents, in the Supreme Court of the United States, March 24, 2014.
- "Brief of Joseph E. Stiglitz as Amicus Curiae in Support of Petitioners," for Esther Kiobel, et al. v. Royal Dutch Petroleum Co., et al., in the Supreme Court of the United States, December, 2011.
The Road to Freedom: Economics and the Good Society
W.W. Norton, April, 2024
Rewriting the Rules of the European Economy: An Agenda for Growth and Shared Prosperity
W.W. Norton, January 2020.
Book Mentions
Nonfiction Views: 28 interesting nonfiction new releases this week, Daily Kos, April 23, 2024.
GP Summer Reading List, University College London's Institute for Global Prosperity, July, 2019.
Barbara Kiser reviews five of the week’s best science picks, Nature, May 1, 2019.
Briefly Noted, The New Yorker, June 10 and June 17, 2019 edition.
8 Best Books on European Politics, The Independent, July 14, 2018.
Opeds on and Excerpts of New Books
- Freedom for the Wolves, The Atlantic, April 22, 2024.
- Climate change is our World War III. It needs a bold response, The Guardian, June 4, 2019.
- Democracy at risk, The Boston Globe, May 28, 2019.
- A ‘democratic socialist’ agenda is appealing. No wonder Trump attacks it, The Washington Post, May 8, 2019.
- Public options are the key to restoring the middle-class life, Financial Times, May 7, 2019.
- US trade deals were designed to serve corporations at the expense of workers, CNBC, April 21, 2019.
- Corporate greed is accelerating climate change. But we can still head off disaster, CNN Business, April 21, 2019.
- Progressive Capitalism Is Not an Oxymoron, The New York Times, April 20, 2019.
Interviews on New Books
- Interviews on The Road to Freedom:
- Bloomberg Business Week: Joseph Stiglitz, Bloomberg Business Week podcast, April 26, 2024.
- A Nobel Prize Winner Dissects American Economics and Politics, The Next Big Idea Club, April 25, 2024.
- Joseph Stiglitz and the Meaning of Freedom, The New Yorker, April 25, 2024.
- Reframing 'Free' Beyond Markets, the Brian Lehrer Show, WNYC, April 24, 2024.
- Joseph Stiglitz on Rethinking the Meaning of Freedom, Quest Means Business, CNN, April 24, 2024.
- The David Pakman Show, April 23, 2024. In at 30:36.
- Lit Hub Asks: 5 Authors, 7 Questions, No Wrong Answers, Lit Hub, April 9, 2024.
- Interviews on People, Power, and Profits:
- It's the Economy with Joseph Stiglitz, Robert Skidelsky and Mary Kaldor, Charleston-to-Charleston Literary Festival, November 12, 2020.
- Capitalismo progresista, la respuesta a la era del malestar ("Progressive capitalism, the answer to the age of discontent"). Puerto de Ideas Festival, Chile, November 8, 2020. (In English)
- Greenlight Bookstore's In Conversation with Joseph Stiglitz, paperback release event, June 4, 2020. Podcast version, here.
- Different People, Different Prices: Talking to Joseph E. Stiglitz, Los Angeles Review of Books blog, January 24, 2020.
- Nobel economist Joseph Stiglitz talks inequality, power and profits, Noted, July 31, 2019.
- If capitalism is broken, maybe it’s fixable, The Economist, July 8, 2019.