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:

• No Confidence in the Fed, Project Syndicate, April 27, 2023. 
• How Models Get the Economy Wrong, The American Prospect, April 3, 2023. 
• US is still living with consequences of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, with Linda J. Bilmes, Boston Globe, March 20, 2023.
• Another Predictable Bank Failure, Project Syndicate, March 13, 2023.
• Who Stands for Freedom? Project Syndicate, February 24, 2023.
• Australia and the post-neoliberal order, The Monthly (Australia), February 23, 2023.
• How Not to Fight Inflation, Project Syndicate, January 26, 2023.
• Opinion: The rich got richer due to Covid and war. Now they should pay their fair share, CNN, January 19, 2023. In Spanish here. In Portuguese, here.

Speeches:

• 'Technological Change, the Future of Jobs and Development,' with Prof Joseph E. Stiglitz, Oxford Martin School, University of Oxford, May 2, 2023.
• Green Industrial Policy: Saving the World without a Trade War, with Professor Lord Nicholas Stern, Honorable E. Miliband MP and Michael Liebreich, University of Oxford, April 27, 2023.
• The role of business journalism in a financial crisis, Reuters Institute, April 26, 2023. In at 11:00.
• Puerto Rico at a Crossroads And Lessons from Latin America, with Martín Guzman, Orazio Attanasio and Raquel Fernández, Yale University, April 8, 2023. In at 50:50.
• How Science can Improve Understanding of the Economy - Festschrift for Alan Kirman, Bank of England, March 16, 2023.
• The Godley-Tobin Memorial Lecture, The Review of Keynesian Economics, February 24, 2023.
• Report Launch: Role of Ministries of Finance in driving and shaping the low-carbon transition, The Oxford Smith School, January 23, 2023.

Papers:

• "The Causes of and Responses to Today’s Inflation," with Ira Regmi, The Roosevelt Institute report, December 2022. 
• "Collective Moral Hazard and the Interbank Market," with Levent Altinoglu, NBER Working Paper No. 29807, February 2022,  forthcoming in American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics.
• "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. 
• "Is it a turning point in the US economy?" Journal of Policy Modeling, Vol. 44, Issue 4, pp. 748-757, July-August, 2022. 
• "Optimal Bailouts and the Doom Loop with a Financial Network," with Agostino Copponi and Felix Corell. Forthcoming in Journal of Monetary Economics.
• "Overcoming wealth inequality by capital taxes that finance public investment," with Linus Mattauch, David Klenert and Ottmar Edenhofer, Structural Change and Economic Dynamics, Vol. 62, June, 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 world economy: Where to after the pandemic? Rethinking global cooperation," Journal of Policy Modeling, Vol. 44, Number 4, pp. 812-819.
• "Understanding the Consequences of IMF Surcharges: The Need for Reform," with Kevin Gallagher, Review of Keynesian Economics, Vol. 1, Number 3, Autumn 2022, pp. 348-354.

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.