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 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:

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:

Delays on WTO deal for COVID treatments are costing lives in Asia, with Lori Wallach, Nikkei Asia, December 14, 2022.
All Pain and No Gain from Higher Interest Rates, Project Syndicate, December 8, 2022.
America's Silent Progressive Majority, Project Syndicate Longer Reads, November 25, 2022.
The International Community Must Prioritize COVID Treatment and Test Access, with Lori Wallach, Scientific American, November 14, 2022.
Wars Aren't Won with Peacetime Economies, Project Syndicate, October 17, 2022.
Dynamic disequilibrium with randomness, with Martin Guzman, VoxEU, October 3, 2022.
The Fed Should Wait and See, with Dean Baker, Project Syndicate, September 12, 2022.
Why the Inflation Reduction Act Is a Big Deal, Project Syndicate, August 8, 2022.
Fighting Climate Change Through Trade, Foreign Affairs, July 25, 2022.
Inflation Dos and Don’ts, with Dean Baker, Project Syndicate, July 8, 2022.
Land speculation, booms, and busts with endogenous phase transitions: A model of economic fluctuations with rational exuberance, with Tomohiro Hirano, VoxEU, June 28, 2022.
How the US Could Lose the New Cold War, Project Syndicate, June 17, 2022.
WTO Cannot Continue as Barrier to COVID-19 Medicines, with Lori Wallach, Newsweek, June 10, 2022.
Getting Deglobalization Right, Project Syndicate, May 31, 2022.
Spring cleaning 2022, Washington Post, May 27, 2022.
The 100 Most Influential People of 2022: Gabriel Boric, TIME, May 23, 2022.
The IMF Is Still Behind the Times on Capital Controls, with Jonathan D. Ostry, Project Syndicate, May 16, 2022.
Vaccinating the world against COVID-19 is a no-brainer, PLOS Global Public Health, May 2, 2022.

Speeches:

Charla magistral del Premio Nobel Joseph E. Stiglitz, University of Chile, October 27, 2022.
Conferencia: Estrategias para el desarrollo económico en un escenario internacional incierto, with Martin Guzman and Mariana Mazzucato, National University of La Plata, Argentina, October 24, 2022. In English and Spanish.
An Uncertain Future: The World Economy, Globalization and Resentment, Vienna Humanities Festival (IWM), September 30, 2022.
Europe's economic challenges and perspectives, Presseclub Concordia, Austria, September 27, 2022.
Inflation, Pandemic, Climate Change: The Urgent Need for Progressive Taxation, panel with Jayati Ghosh, Pascal Saint-Amans, Theresa Neef and Cécile Duflot, ICRICT, September 15, 2022.
The Emerging Market Debt Crisis, London School of Economics, July 28, 2022.
The 2022 UTS Vice-Chancellor's Democracy Forum featuring Joseph Stiglitz, University of Technology Sydney, July 26, 2022.
The Economic Benefits of Trade Unions, the Inaugural Laurie Carmichael Lecture, Carmichael Centre, July 20, 2022.
Joseph E. Stiglitz: The Role of Government in the Modern Economy, The Australia Institute, July 11, 2022.
The Peter Sinclair Town Hall Memorial Lecture with Professor Joseph Stiglitz, University of Birmingham, April 11, 2022.
Conversation with Professor David Autor, Institute of Politics, Harvard Kennedy School, March 28, 2022. In at 23:25.
Keynote, 8th Cohesion Forum, European Commission, Brussels, March 18, 2022. In at 01:04:00.

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.