Joseph E. Stiglitz
Joseph E. Stiglitz, a Nobel laureate in economics and University Professor at Columbia University, is a former chief economist of the World Bank (1997-2000), former chair of the US President’s Council of Economic Advisers, former co-chair of the High-Level Commission on Carbon Prices, and lead author of the 1995 IPCC Climate Assessment. He is Co-Chair of the Independent Commission for the Reform of International Corporate Taxation and the author, most recently, of The Road to Freedom: Economics and the Good Society (W. W. Norton & Company, Allen Lane, 2024).
Joseph E.'s articles (4 total)
Three reforms the IMF needs to make its lending work
As the IMF reviews how it designs lending programs, reforms to policy conditions, contingency planning and country ownership could better support economic recovery, development and democratic accountability.
Trump is hastening the decline of American power
Trump’s threats against countries trading with Iran expose the limits of US economic power, as allies resist Washington’s demands and the global economy moves towards a less American-dominated order.
Trump is replacing capitalism with cronyism
Donald Trump’s use of state power to extract concessions from AI and technology firms is not industrial policy, but a corrupt form of crony capitalism that threatens US democracy, prosperity and the rule of law.
Trump’s tragedy of errors
Regardless of how long US President Donald Trump’s ill-advised war and today’s stagflationary conditions last, the long-run consequences will be profound. Fancying himself an absolute monarch, Trump has broken something he cannot fix and unleashed forces he cannot control.