Joseph E. Stiglitz
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
What's New
Open Letters
- 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.
- Open letter to the United Nations Secretary-General and President of the World Bank-Setting Serious Goals to Combat Inequality, Equals, July 17, 2023.
- Letter: OECD's lobbying points to failure on fair corporate taxation, Financial Times, July 16, 2023
- « Un pas vers une taxe internationale sur les transactions financières serait une première historique, » Le Monde, June 6, 2023.
Articles/OpEds
- The global community needs to do more to tackle the inequality crisis, with Michael G. Marmot and First Lady Monica Geingos, the BMJ, No. 382, September 4, 2023.
- Inequality and Democracy, Project Syndicate, August 31, 2023.
- Will Donald Trump’s Indictments Have Economic Consequences?, with George Soros, Jeffrey Frankel et al., Project Syndicate, August 18, 2023.
- Unregulated AI Will Worsen Inequality, Warns Nobel-Winning Economist Joseph Stiglitz, Scientific American, August 1, 2023.
- PwC scandal should remind Albanese to stay strong on multinational tax secrecy, The Age and Sydney Morning Herald, July 18, 2023.
- Why highly interconnected financial institutions generate systemic risk, with Levent Altinoglu, LSE Business Review blog, June 20, 2023.
- The Global Minimum Corporate Tax Needs More Work, with Tommaso Faccio, Project Syndicate, June 19, 2023.
- Our Debt to Future Generations, Project Syndicate, June 14, 2023.
- Comments on Proposed OMB Circular No. A-4 “Regulatory Analysis” in relation to discounting and risk, with Cameron Hepburn and Nicholas Stern, June 6, 2023.
- Western Industrial Policy and International Law, Project Syndicate, May 31, 2023.
- The Debt Ceiling Fight Is a Dire Economic Risk—and a False Debate, Roosevelt Institute, May 19, 2023.
- No Confidence in the Fed, Project Syndicate, April 27, 2023.
- How Models Get the Economy Wrong, The American Prospect, April 3, 2023.
- US is still living with consequences of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, with Linda J. Bilmes, Boston Globe, March 20, 2023.
- Another Predictable Bank Failure, Project Syndicate, March 13, 2023. In Spanish, here.
- Who Stands for Freedom? Project Syndicate, February 24, 2023.
- Australia and the post-neoliberal order, The Monthly (Australia), February 23, 2023.
- How Not to Fight Inflation, Project Syndicate, January 26, 2023.
- Opinion: The rich got richer due to Covid and war. Now they should pay their fair share, CNN, January 19, 2023. In Spanish here. In Portuguese, here.
Speeches
- Populism on the Rise: Economic Analysis of the Crisis in Israel, with Amit Tibon, Karnit Flug, and Guy Rolnik, Columbia SIPA, June 13, 2023.
- Sanjaya Lall Visiting Professorship Lecture 2023: Prof. Raj Chetty, University of Oxford, May 22, 2023. Professor Stiglitz, commenter. In at 44:00.
- Freedom and Liberty: Perspectives from 21st Century Economics, Sanjaya Lall Memorial Fund Lecture, University of Oxford, May 3, 2023.
- 'Technological Change, the Future of Jobs and Development,' with Prof Joseph E. Stiglitz, Oxford Martin School, University of Oxford, May 2, 2023.
- Green Industrial Policy: Saving the World without a Trade War, with Professor Lord Nicholas Stern, Honorable E. Miliband MP and Michael Liebreich, University of Oxford, April 27, 2023.
- It’s time to kill the myth that climate action will make us poor, the Humphrey Battcock Lecture, Oxford Smith School, University of Oxford, April 26, 2023.
- The role of business journalism in a financial crisis, Reuters Institute, April 26, 2023. In at 11:00.
- Puerto Rico at a Crossroads And Lessons from Latin America, with Martín Guzman, Orazio Attanasio and Raquel Fernández, Yale University, April 8, 2023. In at 50:50.
- How Science can Improve Understanding of the Economy - Festschrift for Alan Kirman, Bank of England, March 16, 2023.
- Joseph Stiglitz analyses the causes of current high inflation and gives his solutions, Trade Union Advisory Council to the OECD, March 15, 2023.
- Climate Change: Towards a New Paradigm? Vis a Vis, a podcast by Columbia University's Alliance Program, with Emmanuel Kattan, Laurence Tubiana, Mireille Chiroleu-Assouline and Patricia Crifo, March 13, 2023.
- The Godley-Tobin Memorial Lecture, The Review of Keynesian Economics, February 24, 2023.
- The Future of Capitalism @TheHub Speaker Series, with Glenn Hubbard, Columbia Business School, February 22, 2023.
- Report Launch: Role of Ministries of Finance in driving and shaping the low-carbon transition, The Oxford Smith School, University of Oxford, January 23, 2023.
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
- "Collective Moral Hazard and the Interbank Market," with Levent Altinoglu, NBER Working Paper No. 29807, February 2022.
- "The Economics of Immense Risk, Urgent Action and Radical Change: Towards New Approaches to the Economics of Climate Change," with Nicholas Stern and Charlotte Taylor, NBER Working Paper No. 28472, February, 2022. Previous version, February, 2021.
- "Land Speculation and Wobbly Dynamics with Endogenous Phase Transitions," with Tomohiro Hirano, NBER Working Paper No. 29745, February, 2022.
- "Macroeconomic Stabilization for a Post-Pandemic World," with Anton Korinek, Hutchins Center Working Paper No. 78, Brookings Institution, August 2022.
- "Optimal Bailouts and the Doom Loop with a Financial Network," with Agostino Capponi and Felix C. Correll, NBER Working Paper No. 27074, January, 2022. Previous version, May 2020.
- "The Wobbly Economy: Global Dynamics with Phase and State Transitions," with Tomohiro Hirano, NBER Working Paper No. 29806, February, 2022.
- "Artificial Intelligence, Globalization, and Strategies for Economic Development," with Anton Korinek, NBER Working Paper No. 28453, February, 2021.
- "Artificial Intelligence, Globalization, and Strategies for Economic Development," with Anton Korinek, Centre for Economic Policy Research Discussion Paper 15772, February, 2021.
- "Economic Fluctuations and Pseudo-Wealth," NBER Working Paper No. 28415, January, 2021.
- "The Economics of Immense Risk, Urgent Action and Radical Change: Towards New Approaches to the Economics of Climate Change," with Nicholas Stern and Charlotte Taylor, NBER Working Paper No. 28472, February, 2021, revised February 2022.
- "Income-Contingent Loans As an Unemployment Benefit," with Jungyoll Yun and Haaris Mateen, NBER Working Paper No. 29198, August, 2021.
Published Papers
- "The Causes of and Responses to Today’s Inflation," with Ira Regmi, The Roosevelt Institute report, December 2022.
- "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 Economic Methodology, February 2022.
- "Foreword," Going Big: FDR’s Legacy, Biden’s New Deal, and the Struggle to Save Democracy, Robert Kuttner. New York: The New Press, 2022, pp. ix-xviii.
- “Fiscal Resiliency in a Deeply Uncertain World: The Role of Semiautonomous Discretion,” with Peter R. Orszag and Robert E. Rubin, Industrial and Corporate Change, Vol. 31, Issue 2, April, 2022, pp. 281–300. First issued as a Peterson Institute for International Economics Policy Brief 21-2, January, 2021.
- "Introduction," with Rudiger L. von Arnim, in The Great Polarization, New York: Columbia University Press, 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, Journal of Monetary Economics, Vol. 128, May, 2022, pp. 35-50.
- "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.
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.
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.
Book Mentions
GP 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
- Interviews on People, Power, and Profits:
- It's the Economy with Joseph Stiglitz, Robert Skidelsky and Mary Kaldor, Charleston-to-Charleston Literary Festival, November 12, 2020.
- Capitalismo progresista, la respuesta a la era del malestar ("Progressive capitalism, the answer to the age of discontent"). Puerto de Ideas Festival, Chile, November 8, 2020. (In English)
- Greenlight Bookstore's In Conversation with Joseph Stiglitz, paperback release event, June 4, 2020. Podcast version, here.
- 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.
