Joseph E. Stiglitz |

University Professor, Columbia University

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:

Related to Argentina:
- Sovereign Creditors Must Not Rewrite the Rules During the Pandemic with Robert Howse and Anne-Marie Slaughter, Project Syndicate, July 9, 2020.
- Restructuring Argentina's Private Debt is Essential with Edmund Phelps and Carmen M. Reinhart, Project Syndicate, May 6, 2020.
Related to COVID-19:
- Priorities for the COVID-19 Economy, Project Syndicate, July 1, 2020.
- Which Economic Stimulus Works? with Hamid Rashid, Project Syndicate, June 9, 2020.
- Patents vs. the Pandemic, with Arjun Jayadev and Achal Prabhala, Project Syndicate, April 23, 2020.
- A Lasting Remedy for the Covid-19 Pandemic’s Economic Crisis, NYR Daily, April 8, 2020.
- Nobel prize-winning economist: The relief package turned out better than I thought it would, CNN Business, April 1, 2020.
- Why Our Affluent Society is Facing Shortages in the Face of the Coronavirus Pandemic? Time, March 27, 2020.
- The COVID-19 stimulus can't be a corporate bail-out. We need a new playbook for relief, Salon, March 24, 2020.
- The wrong coronavirus stimulus: We don’t need more unbridled aid to corporations, New York Daily News, March 23, 2020.
The Truth About the Trump Economy, Project Syndicate, January 17, 2020.
The Starving State: Why Capitalism's Salvation Depends on Taxation, with Todd N. Tucker and Gabriel Zucman, Foreign Affairs, January/February, 2020.

Speeches:

Webinars, online seminars, online speeches and online hearings during the pandemic:
- Prof Joseph Stiglitz & Prof Ian Goldin in conversation: "Policies for the post-COVID world," Oxford Martin School, July 15, 2020.
- Town Hall with Nobel Prize Winning Economist Joseph Stiglitz: Economic Disparity & Recovery, with California State Senate candidate Ann Ravel, July 8, 2020.
- Virtual Hearing - Paycheck Security: Economic Perspectives on Alternative Approaches to Protecting Workers’ Pay during COVID-19, U.S. House Committee on Financial Services, July 7, 2020.
- Strong, Sustainable & Resilient Recovery: the evidence & a pathway to action, LSE's Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment, July 2, 2020.
- Beyond GDP - Virtual Conference with Joseph E. Stiglitz, Bertelsmann Stiftung, June 22, 2020.
- Capitalism after COVID - What next for the global economy? openDemocracy, June 19, 2020.
- People and the Planet: The Future of Development in a Post-COVID-19 World, UN Development Programme, June 17, 2020.
- Enhance Global Cooperation to Combat COVID-19 and Build a Global Community of Shared Future, co-hosted by the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, June 9, 2020.
- Will capitalism survive the pandemic?, Athens Democracy Forum, June 5, 2020.
- Finance and Inequality: The words of a Nobel Prize Winner, AXA Investment Managers, May 27, 2020.
- Pandemic Relief Efforts with Joseph Stiglitz, Institute for New Economic Thinking, May 14, 2020.
- Inequality in a Pandemic, with former Australian Deputy Prime Minister Wayne Swan, a webinar by the Australia Institute, April 29, 2020.
- The U.S. Response to COVID-19, online talk for the Bendheim Center for Finance, Princeton University, April 27, 2020.
- Acceptance of the Thomas Kettle Award from the Economics Society of University College Dublin, via teleconference, April 15, 2020.
- How do we change the paradigm towards a new economy that serves the people and the planet?, online conference via Nyt Europa (Germany), April 15, 2020.
Webinars, online seminars and online speeches during the pandemic, in a foreign language:
- Claves para repensar el presente y futuro de América Latina, Development Bank of Latin America, June 11, 2020.

Papers:

COVID-19-related Papers:
- Report: The Global Pandemic, Sustainable Economic Recovery, and International Taxation, with Edmund Fitzgerald, Eva Joly, Gabriel Zucman, Jayati Ghosh, et al., ICRICT, June 15, 2020.
“Carbon pricing” special issue in the European economic review, editorial, with Cameron Hepburn and Nicholas Stern, European Economic Review, Vol. 27, August 2020.
Rational Heuristics? Expectations and Behaviors in Evolving Economies with Heterogeneous Interacting Agents, with Giovanni Dosi, Mauro Napoletano, Andrea Roventini and Tania Treibich, Economic Inquiry, Vol.58, Issue 3, April 2020, pp. 1487-1516. (NBER Working Paper No. 26922, April 2020.)
Addressing Climate Change Through Price and Non-Price Interventions, European Economic Review, Vol. 119, pp. 594-612, October 2019. (NBER Working Paper No. 25939, June 2019.)