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 COVID-19:
- Republicans, Not Biden, Are About to Raise Your Taxes, The New York Times, October 31, 2020.
- The Pandemic Has Only Increased Our Economic Growth Obsession, Bloomberg Markets, October 5, 2020.
- How to Recover Green, Project Syndicate, September 28, 2020.
- Reclaiming American Greatness, Project Syndicate, September 14, 2020.
- Geoeconomic and Geopolitical Implications of the Pandemic, Great Decisions, Foreign Policy Association, September, 2020.
- Doesn’t Feel Like a Recession? You Should Be Paying More in Taxes, with Kitty Richards, The New York Times, September 3, 2020.
- Conquering the Great Divide, IMF Finance & Development, Fall 2020.
- How to Prevent the Looming Sovereign-Debt Crisis, with Hamid Rashid, Project Syndicate, July 31, 2020.
- 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.
- 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.
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.
A Chance to Repair the Cracks in Our Democracy, The New York Times, December 8, 2020.
Australia’s new tech code is a road worth exploring, with Anya Schiffrin, the Financial Times, December 2, 2020.
What Yellen Must Do, Project Syndicate, December 2, 2020.
Lessons of the American election for Europe and the world, The Progressive Post, November 6, 2020.
The Republican Threat to the Republic, Project Syndicate, October 2, 2020.
Foreword, Conviction, Imprisonment, and Lost Earnings: How Involvement with the Criminal Justice System Deepens Inequality, The Brennan Center for Justice, September 15, 2020.

Speeches:

Webinars, online seminars, online speeches and online hearings during the pandemic:
- Perspectivas y desafíos para las economías emergentes en la era post COVID-19, Jornadas Monetarias y Bancarias 2020, Banco Central de la Republica Argentina, November 25, 2020.
- Schumpeter Innovation in Enterprise Lecture with Joseph Stiglitz, SME Assembly 2020, November 16, 2020.
- Keynote, the 14th AFD International Research Conference on Development, Agence Française de Développement, November 9, 2020. In at 09:18.
- The Future of Global Capitalism, with Dani Rodrik and Branko Milanovic, 24 FMM Conference, Hans-Böckler-Stiftung, October 29, 2020.
- The IMF's COVID-19 Response: A Conversation with Joseph Stiglitz, GDP Center, Boston University, October 15, 2020.
- Green Dealing – The Green Recovery Event, Project Syndicate, October 15, 2020.
- Trump & Taxes: From Personal To Policy, The Center for Public Integrity, October 13, 2020.
- Stiglitz — Comparative Perspectives on Economic Development and Inequalities, Universita degli Studi di Urbino Carlo Bo, Italy, October 8, 2020.
- The Post-Pandemic World: Restructuring Globalization for the Global Public Good, with Anya Schiffrin, Columbia Global Centers Istanbul, the European Commission, and UNDP, October 6, 2020.
- Interaction with Prof Joseph Stiglitz on Global Economic Outlook, co-hosted by Columbia Alumni Association and FICCI, India, October 5, 2020.
- Rausgeblickt (Looking Out): mit Joseph Stiglitz, the Friedrich-Ebert Stiftung, Germany, September 30, 2020.
- VII New Paradigm Workshop: A Talk between Joseph E. Stiglitz and Olaf Scholz, Forum New Economy, Germany, September 29, 2020.
- A desirable future: Masterclass with Joseph Stiglitz, Open Diplomacy Institute, France, September 29, 2020.
- Fund to Alleviate COVID-19 Economics (FACE), Institute of Development Studies, September 25, 2020.
- Future of Capitalism: What really matters in markets, Pakhuis de Zwijger, The Netherlands, September 21, 2020. Begins at 31:26.
- Turning Points: Joseph Stiglitz and Thomas Piketty in Dialogue, Columbia University's Maison Francaise and Le Monde, September 10, 2020.
- The Rock Bottom: the (un)fortunate conclusion of Inequality in the US, with Thomas B. Edsall, Columbia University Club D.C., September 9, 2020.
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:

COVID-19-related Papers:
- Recovering from the Pandemic: An Appraisal of Lessons Learned, Foundation for European Progressive Studies, October 26, 2020.
- Postcript, International Labour Organization and Global Social Governance, Tarja Halonen and Ulla Liukkunen (eds.), Cham, Switzerland: Springer, October 17, 2020.
- Averting Catastrophic Debt Crises in Developing Countries: Extraordinary challenges call for extraordinary measures, with Hamid Rashid, CEPR Policy Insight No. 104, July 2020.
- 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.
Pseudo-wealth and Consumption Fluctuations, with Martin Guzman, The Economic Journal, ueaa102, August 25, 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.)