University Professor, Columbia University

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Open Letters: 

• ICRICT open letter to G20 leaders: it's time for a global asset register to target hidden wealth, ICRIT, April 19, 2022.
• Nobel Laureate Support for Ukraine, March 7, 2022.
• Call for Peace from the International Scientific Community Led by Nobel Laureates, March 3, 2022.
• Letter in support of the Federal Reserve nominees, February 8, 2022.
• ICRICT open letter to G20 leaders: "A global tax deal for the rich," Independent Commission for the Reform of International Corporate Taxation, October 12, 2021.
• Open letter from Nobel Laureates in support of economic recovery agenda, Economic Policy Institute, September 20, 2021.
• An Open Letter to Joe Biden on International Corporate Taxation, Project Syndicate, February 26, 2021.

Articles/OpEds:

• The IMF Is Still Behind the Times on Capital Controls, with Jonathan D. Ostry, Project Syndicate, May 16, 2022.
• Vaccinating the world against COVID-19 is a no-brainer, PLOS Global Public Health, May 2, 2022.
• Shock Therapy for Neoliberals, Project Syndicate, April 5, 2022.
• The IMF's Agreement with Argentina Could Be a Game Changer, with Mark Weisbrot, Project Syndicate, March 10, 2022.
• The IMF's Unfinished Business, with Kevin P. Gallagher, Project Syndicate, March 7, 2022.
• COVID Has Made Global Inequality Much Worse, Scientific American, March, 2022.
• Argentina and the IMF Turn Away From Austerity, with Mark Weisbrot, Foreign Policy, February 1, 2022.
• If Olaf Scholz is serious about progress, he must back a patent waiver for Covid vaccines, The Guardian, December 15, 2021.
• No Wiggle Room Ahead, Project Syndicate, December 4, 2021.
• Brazil's Pioneering Solution to Vaccine Shortages, with Achal Prabhala and Felipe Carvalho, Project Syndicate, December 2, 2021
• The pandemic will continue to rage as long as the WTO keeps bickering over vaccine rules, with Lori Wallach, CNN Business, November 30, 2021.

Speeches:

• The Peter Sinclair Town Hall Memorial Lecture with Professor Joseph Stiglitz, University of  Birmingham, April 11, 2022.
• Conversation with Professor David Autor, Institute of Politics, Harvard Kennedy School, March 28, 2022. In at 23:25.
• Keynote, 8th Cohesion Forum, European Commission, Brussels, March 18, 2022. In at 01:04:00.
• Russia’s Invasion and the War in Ukraine: Experts Discuss the Political and Economic Effects, Center on Global Economic Governance, Columbia SIPA, March 8, 2022. Stiglitz begins at 21:15.
• AI, innovation, and welfare: A conversation with Joseph E. Stiglitz, with Anton Korinek, Brookings Institution, March 7, 2022.
• Inflation Today: Economists Discuss U.S. Inflation, Center for Economic and Policy Research, March 3, 2022.
• Keynote speech for the World Heath Organization's COVID-19 Global Research and Innovation Forum, February 24, 2022. In at approximately 42:00.
• Keynote speech, Green and Inclusive Economic Rebound – Building Forward Better conference, United Nations Development Programme Vietnam, February 24, 2022.
• Keynote speech for the 2022 OECD Competition Open Day, February 23, 2022. 
• The Role of the International Monetary Fund in a Changing Global Landscape, testimony before the U.S. House Committee on Financial Services Subcommittee on National Security, International Development and Monetary Policy, February 17, 2022. In at 31:12.
• The Future of Fiscal Policy Post-COVID, The Institute of International & European Affairs,  February 15, 2022.

Papers:

• "Collective Moral Hazard and the Interbank Market," with Levent Altinoglu, NBER Working Paper No. 29807, February 2022,  forthcoming in American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics.
• "The Wobbly Economy: Global Dynamics with Phase and State Transitions," with Tomohiro Hirano, NBER Working Paper No. 29806, February, 2022.
• "The economics of immense risk, urgent action and radical change: towards new approaches to the economics of climate change," with Nicholas Stern and in collaboration with Charlotte Taylor, Journal of Econonomic Methodology, February 2022. 
• A Social Cost of Carbon Consistent with a Net-Zero Climate Goal, with Nicholas Stern, Charlotte Taylor and Kristina Karlsson, Roosevelt Institute Issue Brief, January 26, 2022.
• "The Economics of Immense Risk, Urgent Action and Radical Change: Towards New Approaches to the Economics of Climate Change," with Nicholas Stern and Charlotte Taylor, NBER Working Paper No. 28472, February, 2022. Previous version, February, 2021.
• "Land Speculation and Wobbly Dynamics with Endogenous Phase Transitions," with Tomohiro Hirano, NBER Working Paper No. 29745, February, 2022.
• "Optimal Bailouts and the Doom Loop with a Financial Network," with Agostino Capponi and Felix C. Correll, NBER Working Paper No. 27074, January, 2022. Previous version, May 2020.

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.

New Books:

Rewriting the Rules of the European Economy: An Agenda for Growth and Shared Prosperity W.W. Norton, January 2020.

People, Power, and Profits: Progressive Capitalism for an Age of Discontent W.W. Norton, April 2019. Also published in the UK by Allen Lane/Penguin.

 

IGP 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, June 27, 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.