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

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.
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.

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Articles and OpEds

A Victory Lap for the Transitory Inflation Team, Project Syndicate, November 13, 2023.
Special-interest privileges threaten to derail Biden’s ambitions for the Western Hemisphere, with Lori Wallach, The Hill, November 6, 2023.
Fixing Global Economic Governance, Project Syndicate, October 23, 2023.
What Pandemic Preparedness Would Look Like, Project Syndicate, October 4, 2023.
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.

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Speeches and Panels

WEBINAR Turning the Tide: How to Deliver an Americas-wide ISDS Exit, Rethink Trade, October 25, 2023.
A new global order: on post-neoliberal globalisation, European University Institute, Robert Schuman Center for Advanced Studies, September 28, 2023.
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.

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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.

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Published Papers

“Bilateral Information Disclosure in Adverse Selection Markets with Nonexclusive Competition,” with Andrew Kosenko and Jungyoll Yun, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Vol. 205(C), pp. 144-168, January, 2023.
“The Causes of and Responses to Today’s Inflation,” Industrial and Corporate Change, Vol. 32(2), pp. 336–385, April, 2023. Also published by the Roosevelt Institute, December 2022.
“Climate Change and Growth,” with Nicholas Stern, Industrial and Corporate Change, Vol. 32(2), pp. 277–303, April, 2023.
"Collective Moral Hazard and the Interbank Market,” with Levent Altinoglu, American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, Vol. 15 (2), pp. 35-65, April, 2023. (Previous version: NBER Working Paper No. 29807, February 2022); and VoxEU, April 18, 2022.
“Whither Multilateralism?” Journal of Policy Modeling, Vol. 45 (4), pp. 702-712, July-August, 2023.

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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.

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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.