Joseph E. Stiglitz |

University Professor, Columbia University

(Author photo: Gabriela Plump)

Appointments

University Professor. Teaching at the Columbia Business School, the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences

(Department of Economics) and the School of International and Public Affairs

Chief Economist of The Roosevelt Institute

Co-founder and Co-President of the Initiative for Policy Dialogue (IPD)

Co-Chair of the High-Level Expert Group on the Measurement of Economic Performance and Social Progress, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.

What's New...

Open Letters:

Open letter asking 37 WTO Members to declare themselves eligible to import medicines manufactured under compulsory license in another country, under 31bis of TRIPS Agreement, Knowledge Ecology International, April 7, 2020.
Why inequality could spread COVID-19, The Lancet, April 2, 2020.

Articles/OpEds:

A Coup Attempt at the IMF, Project Syndicate, September 27, 2021.
Europe should not return to pre-pandemic fiscal rules, Financial Times, September 23, 2021.
Ending the Race to the Bottom: The Global Minimum Tax Deal Is About More Than Fairness, with Todd N. Tucker and Gabriel Zucman, Foreign Affairs, September 17, 2021.
COVID 10 and Human Freedom, Project Syndicate, September 7, 2021.
Are US Corporations Above the Law? With Geoffrey Heal, Project Syndicate, July 12, 2021.
Despite diverging economic views, we all support the Biden plan, with Robert Rubin and Felicia Wong, The Hill, June 23, 2021.
Die deutsche Regierung nimmt die Welt als Geisel, Die Zeit, June 17, 2021. (In German)
G7 leaders can strike a blow on global corporate tax, Financial Times, June 1, 2021.
A call to arms to change capitalism, The Lancet, May 15, 2021.
Corporate America needs to level with investors on climate change, with Peter R. Fisher, USA Today, May 5 2021.
Biden’s infrastructure plan calls for tax increases, and that’s a good thing, Boston Globe, March 31, 2021.
Related to Covid-19:
- Will Corporate Greed Prolong the Pandemic?, with Lori Wallach, Project Syndicate, May 6, 2021.
- Opinion: Preserving intellectual property barriers to covid-19 vaccines is morally wrong and foolish, with Lori Wallach, The Washington Post, April 26, 2021.
- President Biden, Support a People’s Vaccine, with Gordon Brown, Helen Clark and Richard J. Roberts, Project Syndicate, April 16, 2021.
- COVID-19 and the Economic Agenda, Columbia News, March 25, 2021.
- A Global Recovery’s Leading Variables, Project Syndicate, January 4, 2021.

Speeches:

Webinars, online seminars, online speeches and online hearings during the pandemic:
- Pandemic Treaty and Patents, European Public Health Association, July 6, 2021.
- "Building back better" - but on what foundations? Green Templeton Lectures, June 10, 2021.
- The Return of the State and the End of Neoliberalism (translated into Italian), Festival Economia Trento, June 3, 2021.
- Stakeholder Capitalism in the Post-Pandemic World: Conversation with Joseph Stiglitz, Business for Peace Summit, June 2, 2021.
- Green Swan Conference, Bank of International Settlement, June 3, 2021.
- Returning to centre stage: Fiscal policy in the recovery, Resolution Foundation, June 1, 2021.
- What is the causal relationship between innovation and inequality? Keynote for Inequality Through IP conference, The Haifa Centre for Law and Technology and OIPRC, University of Oxford, May 27, 2021.
- Opening Dialogue, World Press Freedom Day Conference, UNESCO, May 7, 2021.
- Visions for the recovery and progressive taxation for a post-COVID world, Foundation for European Progressive Studies and Friedrich Ebert Siftung, April 29, 2021.
- The Cost of Inaction on Climate Change, U.S. Senate Committee on the Budget, April 15, 2021. Written testimony here.
- Joseph Stiglitz on People, Power, and Profits: Progressive Capitalism for an Age of Discontent, New York State Writers Institute, April 13, 2021.
- Fireside chat - Outlook: Globalization and China, with Professor Qian Yingyi, 13th Annual Columbia China Business Conference, April 6, 2021.
Webinars, online seminars and online speeches during the pandemic, in a foreign language:
- Intervento di Joseph Stiglitz, Fattore R 2020 IV Edizione - Piano di Accelerazione, October 16, 2020.
- Claves para repensar el presente y futuro de América Latina, Development Bank of Latin America, June 11, 2020.

Papers:

"Income-Contingent Loans As an Unemployment Benefit," with Jungyoll Yun and Haaris Mateen, NBER Working Paper No. 29198, August, 2021.
"Lessons from COVID-19 and Trump for Theory and Policy," Journal of Policy Modeling, Vol. 43, Issue 4, pp.749-760, July–August 2021.
"Globalization in the aftermath of the pandemic and Trump," Journal of Policy Modeling, Vol. 43, Issue 4, pp. 794-804, July-August 2021.
"The proper role of government in the market economy: The case of the post-COVID recovery," Journal of Government and Economics, Vol. 1, Spring 2021.
"Foreword," Powering a Learning Society During an Age of Disruption, Singapore: Springer, Asian Developement Bank; Education in the Asia-Pacific Region: Issues, Concerns and Prospects series, Vol. 58, pp. ix-xi, June, 2021.
“Fostering More Competitive Labor Markets,” Inequality and the Labor Market: The Case for Greater Competition, Sharon Block and Benjamin Harris, eds.,” Washington D.C.: Brookings Institute, April 2021, pp. 1-16.
"From Manufacturing Led Export Growth to a Twenty-First Century Inclusive Growth Strategy: Explaining the Demise of a Successful Growth Model and What to Do About It," in Inequality in the Developing World, ed. Carlos Gradi, Murray Leibbrandt, and Finn Tarp, UNU-Wider Studies in Development Economics, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021. First published online in April 2021.
“Microfinance and Missing Markets,” with M. Shahe Emran and A.K.M. Mahbub Morshed, Canadian Journal of Economics, Vol. 54, Issue 1, pp. 34-67, April 26, 2021. First published March 2021.
"Covid-19 driven advances in automation and artificial intelligence risk exacerbating economic inequality," with Anton Korinek, British Medical Journal, March 16, 2021.
"Inequality and finance in a rent economy," with Alberto Botta, Eugenio Caverzasi, Alberto Russo and Mauro Gallegati, Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, Volume 183, Pages 998-1029, March, 2021.
"Towards a dynamic disequilibrium theory with randomness," with Martin Guzman, Oxford Review of Economic Policy, Volume 36, Issue 3, Pages 621–674, January 19, 2021.