Video: It's Time to Get Radical On Inequality, Stiglitz, 18 min (tags)
We are the least consistent with the American Dream. An economic system that doesn't raise standards is a failure.
Zoo Animals May Starve in Greece (tags)
Greece
The Myth of America's Golden Age by Joseph Stiglitz (tags)
Joseph Stiglitz, former chief economist at the World Bank and winner of the 2001 Nobel Prize for economics, teaches at Columbia University in NYC.
Video: Fair Taxes for All, Joseph Stiglitz (tags)
Barriers are political , not economic. Humans can revise the tax code. Our tax system encourages the 1%. If you're not creating jobs here, you'll have a high tax. Median income is lower than a quarter of a century ago. All the growth has gone to the top. We no longer have a country with opportunity.
The Price of 9/11 by Tom Hayden and Joseph Stiglitz (tags)
Tom Hayden is an activist, former state senator in California and prolific author defending the rights of nature and the right to dissent. Joseph Stiglitz is the 2001 Nobel Prize winner for economics and professor at Columbia University.
The U.S. is More Greek than Greece (tags)
Deficit economies were organized mainly by finance capital. The expansion of this credit-financed mass demand went along with the expansion of the financial sector. Trillions of dollars and Euros were pumped in the stabilization of financial markets.
"Severe Austerity Programs will have Catastrophic Consequences" (tags)
"Instead of real growth, the financial sector has only promoted phantom growth. The state functions differently than a family. Less should be spent for unproductive purposes like the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq and unconditional bank bailout packages.."
"Concepts must be developed against the global demand-deficit. Repairing the financial system is not enough. The economic-political prescriptions of the past - flexible wages and restricted social benefits - would worsen the situation."
Economists Search for New Definition of Well-Being (tags)
To the vulgar materialist, all life consists of cloud-atoms and sky-atoms. A world without spirit is not human.
2009 Preliminary Report of the Stiglitz Commission (tags)
This 109-page document is available in pdf-format.
Stimulate or Die by Joseph Stiglitz (tags)
Joseph Stiglitz received the Nobel Prize in Economics in 2001.
Attac France on the Stiglitz Report (tags)
If the world really lives through a systemic crisis, solutions must also be sou9ght on this plane. Regrettably the mandate limits the commission to reform the international monetary system. The UN is the only institution with a democratic legitimacy.
Government Stimulus Plans are `Not Enough': Joseph Stiglitz (tags)
Governments have to do more than just spend money, says Stiglitz.
Stiglitz Calls for Global Solutions to Crisis (tags)
Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz argues that the only way to fix the world's economic crisis is to act globally. Speaking at the Development Policy Forum in Berlin on Monday he said the reform of the world's financial institutions wasn't going fast enough.
VIDEO: Joseph Stiglitz on NOW, 11/20/2008 (tags)
Insight on the Economic Meltdown. Joseph Stiglitz talks about misplaced priorities in handling the economic meltdown and what we should do next. A culture of risk-taking was totally inappropriate.
The Philosophies of Deregulation and Neoliberalism are Dead in the West (tags)
"The patient suffers massive internal bleeding and is given a blood transfusion. The banks lent money and accepted inflated assets as security. This bubble burst..Those who pocketed profits for years want to pin the losses on the taxpayers."
The Great Ruin by Joseph Stiglitz (tags)
The war has destroyed the economy, society and sovereignty of the country. The economic misery is only an integral element of the general debacle. Paul Bremer issued laws abolishing import duties and lowering corporate taxes. Privatizing state enterprises violated Hague Convention of 1902.
Lo que Joseph Stiglitz debería saber (tags)
Todo lo que Stiglitz condena al enfocar la política tributaria fue implementado por Borda, para financiar la juerga de unas pocas decenas de burócratas del gobierno
The US military occupation of Iraq cannot be won militarily and cannot be paid for. The military occupation was sold as a cheap war that would only help the US and the world: more security and a lower price of oil. Empire and double standards bring only nihilism and distrust.
Joseph Stiglitz on "Democracy Now" Friday 2/29 (tags)
Professor Stiglitz will be interviewed by Amy Goodman on "Democracy Now" Friday 2/29.
"The War is Bad for the Economy": Joseph Stiglitz (tags)
Information channels into the White House were distorted. Bush wanted only certain information, and that's mostly what they supplied him with.. The only people benefiting in this war are Bush's friends in the oil industry.
U.S. Government of the rich, by the rich, and for the rich (tags)
How has the secretive U.S.-based IMF/World Bank economically enslaved poor countries?