University Professor, Columbia University

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Open Letters on Covid-19: 

• 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:
  • 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:

• Is Progressive Capitalism an Answer to America's Problems? Public lecture at The London School of Economics and Political Science, December 4, 2019.
• Technology, Societal Well-being and Inequality, Speech during presentation of Honorary Doctorate, Politecnico di Torino, Turin, Italy, November 7, 2019. Video available here.
• After Neoliberalism: The Need for a New Paradigm, Speech during presentation of Honorary Doctorate, École Normale Supérieure de Lyon, Lyon, France, November 5, 2019.
• Collective Action and the Public Good, Speech at Azim Premji University, Bangalore, India, October 26, 2019.
• Quality of Growth in Africa: Towards Sustainable, Inclusive and Resiliant Development, Speech at TICAD 7 side event, Yokohama, Japan, August 29, 2019.  
• Globalization, Development and Achieving the SDGs in Africa, Keynote at pre-event for the 7th Tokyo International Conference on African Development, Tokyo, Japan, August 27, 2019.
• An Alternative Vision for the Global and European Economies, speech at the European Trade Union Confederation conference, Vienna, Austria, May 22, 2019.
• Rewriting the Rules of the European Economy, speech at the presentation in Vienna, Austria, sponsored by FEPS and the Karl Renner Institute, May 22, 2019.
• Anthony Atkinson Equality Prize, Keynote, the Blue Met Festival and the Observatoire Québécois des Inégalités, Montreal, Canada, April 29, 2019.

Papers:

• "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.)
• "Artificial Intelligence and Its Implications for Income Distribution and Unemployment," with Anton Korinek, in The Economics of Artificial Intelligence: An Agenda, London: NBER/University of Chicago Press, pp. 349-390, May 2019. (NBER Working Paper No. 24174, December 2017. Paper presented in NBER AI conference September 13-14, 2017.)
• "Commentary on Partha Dasgupta’s Birth and Death," in Time and the Generations, Partha Dasgupta, New York: Columbia University Press, pp. 199-206, June 2019.
• "Artificial Intelligence and Its Implications for Income Distribution and Unemployment," with Anton Korinek, in The Economics of Artificial Intelligence: An Agenda, London: NBER/University of Chicago Press, pp. 349-390, May 2019.
• "Inequality and finance in a rent economy," with Alberto Botta, Eugenio Caverzasi, Alberto Russo and Mauro Gallegati, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, available online April, 2019.
• “Structural Transformation, Deep Downturns, and Government Policy,” The Oxford Handbook of Structural Transformation, Célestin Monga and Justin Yifu Lin (eds.), Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 35-44, March, 2019.

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

• 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.
• Insider Q&A: Joseph Stiglitz Touts 'Progressive Capitalism,' Associated Press, July 7, 2019.
• Joseph Stiglitz: Saving Capitalism from Itself, Chris Riback's Conversations podcast, June 21, 2019.
• Why economist Joseph Stiglitz is advocating for “progressive capitalism,” Marketplace, May 30, 2019.
• An Icon of the Left Tells Democrats: Don’t Go Socialist, ForeignPolicy.com, May 21, 2019.
• Joseph Stiglitz: ‘We should shut down the cryptocurrencies,’ CNBC, May 6, 2019.
• Joseph Stiglitz weighs in on Universal Basic Income and the future of work, CNBC, May 5, 2019.
• Joseph Stiglitz: Three headwinds that could cause the next recession, CNBC, May 4, 2019.
• Books Podcast: Joseph Stiglitz on the EU’s big economic mistake, The Spectator, May 2, 2019.
• Live Q&A With Joseph Stiglitz, Slate Money, Slate.com, April 30, 2019.
• The Exchange: Joseph Stiglitz, Breakingviews, Reuters, April 29, 2019.
• A Democratic fiscal manifesto, Axios, April 28, 2019.
• Joseph Stiglitz defines economic terms for 2020: "The swamp has never been murkier," Salon.com, April 27, 2019.
• Economist Joseph Stiglitz: Capitalism Hasn’t Been Working for Most People for the Last 40 Years, Democracy Now!, April 24, 2019.
• Stiglitz Says Redirect Markets to Better Serve Americans, Bloomberg Surveillance, April 24, 2019.
• Economist Argues for Market and Political Reform, Morning Joe, MSNBC, April 23, 2019.
• Socialist! Capitalist! Economic Systems as Weapons in a War of Words, The New York Times, April 19, 2019.
• Two-Part Interview with BBC Radio 4 - Today, April 19, 2019. Interviews found at 00:14:55 and 01:19:26