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.
- Open letter to the United Nations Secretary-General and President of the World Bank-Setting Serious Goals to Combat Inequality, Equals, July 17, 2023.
- Letter: OECD's lobbying points to failure on fair corporate taxation, Financial Times, July 16, 2023.
- « Un pas vers une taxe internationale sur les transactions financières serait une première historique, » Le Monde, June 6, 2023.
Articles and OpEds
- 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.
- A Victory Lap for the Transitory Inflation Team, Project Syndicate, November 13, 2023.
- Special-interest privileges threaten to derail Biden’s ambitions for the Western Hemisphere, with Lori Wallach, The Hill, November 6, 2023.
Speeches and Panels
- 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.
- 2023 Environmental Economics and Policy Conference: Measuring and Adapting to Climate Risk, Columbia SIPA, November 9, 2023.
- WEBINAR Turning the Tide: How to Deliver an Americas-wide ISDS Exit, Rethink Trade, October 25, 2023.
Joseph Stiglitz addresses Joint Meeting of ECOSOC and 2nd Committee, United Nations, October 10, 2023.
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, Coming April 23, 2024
Rewriting the Rules of the European Economy: An Agenda for Growth and Shared Prosperity
W.W. Norton, January 2020.
Book Mentions
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
- 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 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.
Books
The Road to Freedom: Economics and the Good Society
W. W. Norton, April 23, 2024