Appointments
Columbia University
University Professor, teaching at the Columbia Business School, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Department of Economics, and the School of International and Public Affairs.
Initiative for Policy Dialogue (IPD)
Founder and Co-President
The Roosevelt Institute
Chief Economist
Independent Commission for the Reform of International Corporate Taxation (ICRICT)
Co-Chair
High-Level Expert Group on the Measurement of Economic Performance and Social Progress, OECD
Co-Chair
Open Letters (For information purposes only)
- Twenty-Three Nobel Economists Sign Letter Saying Harris Agenda Vastly Better For U.S. Economy, October 23, 2024.
- Letter: G20 must step up aid to world’s poorest countries, Financial Times, October 15, 2024.
- Open Letter to the International Monetary Fund Board of Directors on the Need for Significant Reform of the Rate of Charge and Surcharge Policies, October 10, 2024.
- Sixteen Nobel Economists Sign Letter About Risks to the U.S. Economy of a Second Trump Presidency, June 25, 2024.
- Council co-chairs' statement on efforts to negotiate a pandemic agreement, May 24, 2024.
- Global Leaders Renew Call for Justice for Professor Yunus, January 28, 2024.
- Put the UN in Charge of International Taxation, Project Syndicate, November 21, 2023.
- G20 Leaders Must Tax Extreme Wealth, Patriotic Millionaires, Oxfam, Millionaires for Humanity, Earth4All, Institute for Policy Studies, September 5, 2023.
- Global Leaders and Nobel Laureates Call for Ending the Persecution of Muhammad Yunus, August 29, 2023.
Articles and OpEds
- The Democrats’ Only Option, Project Syndicate, November 27, 2024.
- Harris Is the Freedom Candidate, Project Syndicate, October 22, 2024.
- IMF surcharges saga could threaten its credibility, Financial Times, October 10, 2024.
- The IMF Must End Its Destructive Surcharges, with Kevin Gallagher, Martín Guzmán and Marilou Uy, Project Syndicate, September 16, 2024.
- The Climate Stakes of the US Election, Project Syndicate, September 11, 2024.
- Letters to the Next President, Foreign Policy, September 9, 2024.
- Corporations Help Economy but Need to Pay Fair Share of Taxes, with Juan Montecino and Ignacio González, Bloomberg Tax, August 6, 2024.
- America’s shortsighted, lopsided capitalism was never built to last, The Hill, August 1, 2024.
- The Way Forward for Ukraine’s Economy, with Andrew Kosenko, Project Syndicate, July 12, 2024.
- There's No Debating Who Would Be Better for the US Economy, Project Syndicate, July 4, 2024.
- The International Tax System Is Broken But the UN Can Fix It--If Washington Gets Out of the Way, Foreign Affairs, July 3, 2024.
- What Comes After Neoliberalism? The Big Question, Project Syndicate, June 4, 2024.
- How to Protect the World from the Next Pandemic, with Winnie Byanyima, Project Syndicate, May 29, 2024.
- Global Elections in the Shadow of Neoliberalism, Project Syndicate, May 1, 2024.
- Freedom for the Wolves, The Atlantic, April 22, 2024.
- Quality Journalism Is More Important than Ever, with Anya Schiffrin and Dylan W. Groves, Project Syndicate, April 17, 2024.
- Big Tech Is Trying to Prevent Debate About Its Social Harms, Foreign Policy, April 4, 2024.
- A Big Defeat for Big Tech, Project Syndicate, March 18, 2024.
- The Biden Administration vs. Climate Youth, Project Syndicate, March 13, 2024.
- How to Enforce Climate Agreements with Trade Measures, with Scott Barrett and Noah Kaufman, Project Syndicate, January 25, 2024.
- The Biden Administration’s Recent Antitrust Wins Help Us All, Project Syndicate, January 10, 2024.
- Time for a Victory Lap? American Prospect, January 4, 2024.
- Seizing Russia’s Frozen Assets Is the Right Move, with Andrew Kosenko, Project Syndicate, January 4, 2024.
Speeches and Panels
- Towards A Solution to the Current Sovereign Debt Crises and to Restore Growth: Five Key Complexities, with Martin Guzman, IMF-World Bank Annual Meetings, Washington, DC, October 22, 2024.
- Speech on the occasion of accepting an honorary doctorate from the University of Athens, October 15, 2024.
- Joseph Stiglitz on THE US PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION AND THE GLOBAL GREEN AGENDA, the Eighth Sustainability Summit, Economist Impact, Greece, October 14, 2024.
- The Road to Freedom: Economics and the Good Society - Prof. Joseph Stiglitz, Khazanah Megatrends Forum, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, October 8, 2024.
- Bhutan Innovation Forum, October 1, 2024.
- The 2024 US Presidential Election and the Future of Multilateralism, Brookings, September 24, 2024.
- Joseph Stiglitz | Economics and The Good Society, The Commonwealth Club of California, September 16, 2024.
- What's happening in the United States? | Joseph Stiglitz Speaking Tour - Sydney, with Malcolm Turnbull, The Australia Institute, July 29, 2024.
- Making Wall Street Pay Its Fair Share: Raising Revenue, Strengthening Our Economy, testimony before the U.S. Senate Budget Committee, June 12, 2024.
- The Road to Freedom, public lecture at the London School of Economics, April 30, 2024.
- The Path for Taxing the Super-Rich: Towards a Progressive Global Taxation Agenda, with Esther Duflo, Gabriel Zucman, Ndzana Olomo Patrick, Chenai Mukumba and Katherine Baer, International Monetary Fund, April 18, 2024.
- Development and Debt Challenges in Latin America and the Global South, with Martin Guzman, University of Texas, Austin, April 12, 2024.
- Knowledge Forum with Prof. Stiglitz "The Future of Employment in a Changing Global Economy," with Akbar Noman and Arjun Jayadev, Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), March 11, 2024.
- How sustainable is our national debt? - Oral evidence, UK House of Lords Economic Affairs Committee, March 5, 2024.
- Claudia Sahm & Joseph Stiglitz: A Discussion on Post-Pandemic Inflation - Monetary Policy Institute, February 8, 2024.
- Navigating in Tumultuous Waters: The Year Ahead, Hong Kong University Business School, January 17, 2024.
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.
Papers and Briefs
Working Papers
- Growth and Fluctuations: An Overview, NBER Working Paper No. 33218, December, 2024.
- How Neoliberalism Failed, and What a Better Society Could Look Like, Roosevelt Institute Working Paper, August, 2024.
- Moral Hazard and Unemployment in Competitive Equilibrium, with Patrick Rey, NBER Working Paper No. 32700, July 2024.
- Post-Neoliberal Globalization: International Trade Rules for Global Prosperity, with Martin Guzman, NBER Working Paper No. 32533, June, 2024.
- Credit, Land Speculation, and Long-Run Economic Growth, with Tomohiro Hirano, NBER Working Paper No. 32479, May, 2024.
- Are Supply Networks Efficiently Resilient?, with Agostino Capponi and Chuan Du, NBER Working Paper No. 32221. March, 2024.
- The Economics of Information in a World of Disinformation: A Survey Part 1: Indirect Communication, with Andrew Kosenko, NBER Working Paper No. 32049. January, 2024.
- The Economics of Information in a World of Disinformation: A Survey Part 2: Direct Communication, with Andrew Kosenko, NBER Working Paper No. 32050. January, 2024.
Published Papers
- Reforming the IMF Surcharge Rate Policy to Avoid Procyclical Lending, with Martin Guzman, Kevin Gallagher and Marilou Uy, T20 Policy Brief, September 11, 2024.
- The Practice of Sovereign Debt Sustainability Analysis, with Martin Guzman, Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, August, 2024.
- A Proposal for Russian Asset Seizure, with Andrew Kosenko, Brookings Policy Brief, July 2024.
- Post-neoliberal globalization: international trade rules for global prosperity, Oxford Review of Economic Policy, Volume 40 (2), Summer 2024, pp. 282–306, June 12, 2024.
- Rethinking Global Governance: Cooperation in a World of Power, with Dani Rodrik, March, 2024.
- The Godley-Tobin Memorial Lecture: Neoliberalism, Keynesian economics, and responding to today’s inflation, Review of Keynesian Economics, Vol. 12 (1), Spring, 2024, pp. 1-26.
- A New Growth Strategy for Developing Nations, with Dani Rodrik, January, 2024.
Amicus Briefs
- "Brief of Joseph E. Stiglitz as Amicus Curiae in Support of Petitioners," in the Supreme Court of the United States, States, Petitioners, v. American Express Company and American Express Travel Related Services Company, Inc, December 14, 2017.
- “Brief of Joseph E. Stiglitz as Amicus Curiae in Support of Petitioners,” for Republic of Argentina, Petitioner, v. NML Capital Ltd., et al., Respondents, in the Supreme Court of the United States, March 24, 2014.
- "Brief of Joseph E. Stiglitz as Amicus Curiae in Support of Petitioners," for Esther Kiobel, et al. v. Royal Dutch Petroleum Co., et al., in the Supreme Court of the United States, December, 2011.
The Road to Freedom: Economics and the Good Society
W.W. Norton, April, 2024
Rewriting the Rules of the European Economy: An Agenda for Growth and Shared Prosperity
W.W. Norton, January 2020.
Book Mentions
Amazon Editors' Pick: Best Books of the Year 2024.
The best books that make sense of how globalization broke down, and what happens next, Peter S. Goodman on Shepherd.com, June, 2024.
Roula Khalaf, Stephen Bush and other FT journalists pick their favourite book of 2024 so far, Financial Times, June 22, 2024.
Nonfiction Views: 28 interesting nonfiction new releases this week, Daily Kos, April 23, 2024.
The Road to Freedom: Economics and the Good Society, Kirkus Review, March 6, 2024.
The Most Anticipated Books of 2024, Foreign Policy, December 31, 2023.
Opeds on and Excerpts of New Books
- Opinion: Time is up for neoliberals, The Washington Post, May 13, 2024.
- A billionaires’ tax is justified—and Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos are inspired by more than money, Book Excerpt, Fortune, May 12, 2024.
- Where Global Governance Went Wrong—and How to Fix It, Foreign Policy, April 28, 2024.
- Survival of the Wealthiest: Joseph E. Stiglitz on the Dangerous Failures of Neoliberalism, Literary Hub, April 24, 2024.
- Freedom for the Wolves, The Atlantic, April 22, 2024.
- 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 The Road to Freedom:
- The Current with Matt Galloway, CBC Radio (Canada), November 15, 2024.
- Joseph Stiglitz: A Path to Freedom for a Better Economy and Society, Bangkok Post, October 22, 2024.
- Joseph Stiglitz | Economics and The Good Society, The Commonwealth Club of California, September 16, 2024.
- Review: A ‘superficial’ and ‘misguided’ version of freedom has captured the American right. Joseph Stiglitz considers the alternatives, The Conversation, September 15, 2024.
- Joseph Stiglitz on the role of government in the economy, The Hindu (India) On Books podcast, August 19, 2024.
- India has a lot more scope to pursue progressive capitalism: Joseph Stiglitz, The Hindu (India), August 11, 2024.
- 'Neoliberal capitalism' has contributed to the rise of fascism, says Nobel laureate, ABC News (Australia) Analysis, August 11, 2024.
- Joseph Stiglitz: inequality is not inevitable, Melbourne Mornings, ABC Radio Melbourne (Australia), August 6, 2024.
- The invention of reality TV and Joseph Stiglitz on the meaning of freedom, ABC Radio National Saturday Extra (Australia), August 2, 2024.
- Talking Trump and Economics With Joseph Stiglitz in Sydney, The New York Times Australia Letter, August 2, 2024.
- The Road To Freedom (with Joseph Stiglitz), Pitchfork Economics podcast, July 16, 2024.
- Nobel Laureate Joseph Stiglitz on Populism, Trump, One Decision podcast, June 27, 2024.
- Joseph Stiglitz on Pioneering Economic Theories, Policy Challenges, and His Intellectual Legacy, Conversations with Tyler, June 26, 2024.
- Joseph Stiglitz's Vision of a New Progressive Capitalism, Capitalisn't podcast, June 20, 2024.
- Is it time for capitalism to change? On Watch podcast by MarketWatch, June 13, 2024.
- Joseph Stiglitz vs Friedrich von Hayek: One Nobel Prize Winning Economist Takes On Another, KPFA, June 10, 2024.
- The Road to Freedom: A Conversation with Joseph E. Stiglitz, Deep State Radio, May 29, 2024.
- The Road to Freedom: Economics and the Good Society, New Books Network, May 20, 2024.
- Nobel-winning Economist Joseph Stiglitz New Book Offers A New Vision on Economic and Political Freedom, Heartland Politics with Robin Johnson, WVIK, May 16, 2024.
- Joseph Stiglitz: the UK’s tax system is “inexcusable,” The New Statesman, May 11, 2024.
- Stiglitz: Here's the Playbook Trump Will Use to Stay in Power, Business Insider, May 9, 2024.
- Joseph Stiglitz: ‘Freedom for the wolves means death for the lambs,’ City A.M., May 9, 2024.
- Economist Joseph Stiglitz on Pro-Palestine campus protests, Trump and rethinking freedom, Ways to Change the World, BBC4, May 7, 2024.
- Neoliberal economics: The road to freedom or authoritarianism?, Planet Money, May 5, 2024.
- Corbyn economics guru urges Starmer to borrow and spend more, The Telegraph, May 5, 2024.
- Joseph Stiglitz: ‘We know where fascism led last time,’ The Spectator, May 4, 2024.
- Joseph Stiglitz is still walking the road to freedom, The Times, May 3, 2024.
- Question Time, BBC1, May 2, 2024.
- An interview with Joseph Stiglitz, Money Talks, The Economist, May 2, 2024.
- Joe Stiglitz on Why America's Appetite for Trump Endures, Business Insider, May 1, 2024.
- Joseph Stiglitz Makes the Case for Moving Past Neoliberalism, Barron's, May 1, 2024.
- BBC Today, BBC Radio 4, April 30, 2024. In at 2:40.
- Economist Joseph Stiglitz: ‘Trump is what neoliberalism produces’, Financial Times, April 29, 2024.
- BBC Newshour, BBC World Service, April 29, 2024.
- Bloomberg Business Week: Joseph Stiglitz, Bloomberg Business Week podcast, April 26, 2024.
- Is Our Concept of Freedom All Wrong? People I (Mostly) Admire podcast, Freakonomics, April 26, 2024.
- The morning after neoliberalism, The.Ink, April 26, 2024.
- Joseph E. Stiglitz — The Road to Freedom: Economics and the Good Society - with Timothy Noah, Politics and Prose and Sixth & I, April 25, 2024. On C-SPAN's Book TV, here.
- A Nobel Prize Winner Dissects American Economics and Politics, The Next Big Idea Club, April 25, 2024.
- Joseph Stiglitz and the Meaning of Freedom, The New Yorker, April 25, 2024.
- Reframing 'Free' Beyond Markets, the Brian Lehrer Show, WNYC, April 24, 2024.
- Joseph Stiglitz on Rethinking the Meaning of Freedom, Quest Means Business, CNN, April 24, 2024.
- To Push for as Large a Change as Our Democratic System Will Permit: Joseph Stiglitz on Economics and the Good Society, The Review of Democracy podcast, April 24, 2024.
- Roosevelt Institute Book Club: The Road to Freedom, The Roosevelt Institute, April 24, 2024.
- Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz: Fed rate hikes didn’t get at source of inflation, Squawk Box, CNBC, April 23, 2024.
- The David Pakman Show, April 23, 2024. In at 30:36.
- 1089 Prof Joseph Stiglitz and Today's Recap from Earth One, Stand up! with Pete Dominick, April 23, 2023.
- Lit Hub Asks: 5 Authors, 7 Questions, No Wrong Answers, Lit Hub, April 9, 2024.
- Interviews on The Road to Freedom in foreign languages:
- 'Deregulering in de jaren 80 kostte ons onze vrijheid in 2008,' NRC (the Netherlands), July 1, 2024.
- Nobelprijs-winnaar Joseph E. Stiglitz over vrijheid, economie en een goede samenleving, De Morgen, (the Netherlands), June 29, 2024.