Selected Media Coverage by Book
The Price of Inequality
- Announcing the 2013 RFK Book & Journalism Award Honorees, Robert F. Kennedy Center for Justice & Human Rights., July 15, 2013.
- Stiglitz, Freeland, Mandles Talk Art, Inequality, at Leila Heller Gallery, Gallerist NY, February 20, 2013.
- What's cuasing inequality in the economy?, Up with Chris Hayes, MSNBC, February 3, 2013.
- How income inequality could be slowing our recovery from the Great Recession, The New Republic, January 30, 2013.
- Joseph Stiglitz: US Setting "Terrible Example" with Income Inequality, The Global Post, December 27, 2012.
- Hail the Australian Dream, by Australian Deputy Prime Minister and Treasurer Wayne Swan in The Sydney Morning Herald, October 20, 2012.
- The Price of Inequality: Q&A with Nobel Economics Winner Joseph Stiglitz, The Christian Science Monitor, October 17, 2012.
- Joseph Stiglitz on Charlie Rose, October 5, 2012.
- Charlie Rose Talks to Joseph Stiglitz, BusinessWeek, October 4, 2012.
- Why Let the Rich Hoard All the Toys?, The New York Times, October 3, 2012.
- Review of The Price of Inequality, The Washington Post, August 24, 2012.
- Nobel Economist: Inequality Weighs on U.S. Economy, interview with The Associated Press, August 9, 2012.
- Separate and Unequal, review of The Price of Inequality, The New York Times, August 3, 2012.
- Interview on The Price of Inequality, The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, July 25, 2012 (video).
- The Hollowing of America's Middle Class, Christiane Amanpour, CNN, July 24, 2012 (video).
- Review of The Price of Inequality, The Observer, July 13, 2012.
- Joseph Stiglitz on How America Is No Longer the Land of Opportunity, Financial Times, June 25, 2012.
- The Price of Inequality: Interview With Joseph E. Stiglitz, Rolling Stone, June 25, 2012.
- 10 Questions for Joseph Stiglitz, Time Magazine, June 11, 2012.
- Stiglitz Bares Billionaires' Weapon -- Government, Bloomberg Businessweek, June 10, 2012 (book review).
- Joseph Stiglitz on Business Day Live, website of The New York Times, June 8, 2012 (video).
- Why Inequality Is Bad for the Economy, The Business Insider, June 6, 2012 (video).
- Economist Joseph Stiglitz on income inequality in the U.S., Marketplace, June 6, 2012 (podcast).
- Joseph Stiglitz on "The Price of Inequality: How Today's Divided Society Endangers Our Future," Democracy Now!, June 6, 2012 (video).
- Joseph Stiglitz and The Price of Inequality, NY1, June 6, 2012.
- Q&A: Joseph Stiglitz on the Fallacy That the Top 1 Percent Drives Innovation, and Why the Reagan Administration Was America's Inequality Turning Point, Vanity Fair, June 5, 2012.
- Growing Economic Inequality Endangers Our Future, NPR, June 5, 2012 (audio).
Freefall
Excerpts
- The Great American Bank Robbery, AlterNet, February 27, 2010.
- Opinion: The Way Forward on the Economy, AOL News - Sphere, January 25, 2010.
- Joseph Stiglitz: Why we have to change capitalism, The Telegraph (UK), January 23, 2010.
- 'Freefall' Excerpt: Too Late To Fix The Biggest Banking Blunder In History?, The Huffington Post, January 19, 2010.
- Excerpt: 'Freefall: America, Free Markets, and the Sinking of the World Economy', NPR, January 15, 2010.
- Moral Bankruptcy, Mother Jones, January/February 2010.
Selected Reviews
- The Invention of Pop Economics, Review By Guy Sorman, City Journal, March 26, 2010.
- Overriding economic issues, Review by Shelley Walia, The Tribune India, March 21, 2010.
- Off with the market, March 20, 2010.
- March Poli-Book Best Sellers, By Orville Buddo, The New York Times, March 20, 2010.
- The financial crisis and the future of regulation: Blame game, The Economist, March 18, 2010.
- 5 Smart Books: Origins of the Strategies, Smart Money, March 18, 2010.
- 'The Big Short' and 'Freefall', Review by G. Pascal Zachary, The San Francisco Chronicle, March 14, 2010.
- How free markets sank the U.S. economy, Reuters Limited, March 11, 2010.
- Books Briefly Noted: 'Freefall', The New Yorker, March 8, 2010.
- Nonfiction: "Freefall: America, Free Markets, and the Sinking of the World Economy, by Joseph E. Stiglitz, Review by Tim Grant, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, March 7, 2010.
- Expert answers to the global meltdown, Review by Abby Wong, The Star Online, February 27, 2010.
- Review by James Pressley, Seattle Times, February 25, 2010.
- Top Five Business Books, From Clarke to Stiglitz: The Muse List, Review by James Pressley, Bloomberg, February 24, 2010.
- February's Poli-Book Best Sellers, The New York Times, February 21, 2010.
- Freefall: Free Markets and the Sinking of the Global Economy by Joseph Stiglitz, By Will Hutton, The Guardian (UK), February 14, 2010.
- We read it so you don't have to: Freefall - Joseph E. Stiglitz, By Michael Hirsh, Newsweek, February 8, 2010.
- Bank-bashing with a vengeance, Review by Tim Congdon, The Spectator (UK) - Book Club, February 3, 2010.
- Stiglitz's New Book and the Developing Countries, Review by Otaviano Canuto, Growth and Crisis Program blog, The World Bank, February 2, 2010.
- Nobel Laureate Stiglitz Explains the Financial Crisis, The Epoch Times, January 31, 2010.
- They Asked for It, Review by John Kay, The Financial Times, January 30, 2010.
- Freefall: Free Markets and the Sinking of the Global Economy, Review by Larry Elliott, The Guardian (UK), January 30, 2010.
- Off the Shelf: What Happened to Regulatory Reform? by Devin Leonard, New York Times, January 30, 2010.
- What We're Reading, Jan. 27 - Feb. 2, 2010, Boston's NPR News Station, January 26, 2010.
- Five Top Business Books From Gawande to Stiglitz: the Muse List, Compiled by James Pressley, Bloomberg, January 25, 2010.
- The forces behind the fiscal meltdown, Review by Chuck Leddy, The Boston Globe, January 25, 2010.
- Freefall: Free Markets and the Sinking of the Global Economy by Joseph Stiglitz, The Sunday Times Review by David Smith,January 24, 2010.
- The Skimmer, Review by Barbara Kiviat, TIME Magazine, January 22, 2010.
- Review: Stiglitz presents anti-recession proposals, Review by Carl Hartmann, The Seattle Times, January 22, 2010.
- Freefall: Free Markets and the Sinking of the Global Economy, Review by Paul Mason, The New Statesman, January 21, 2010.
- Skepticism for Obama's Fiscal Policy, Book of the Times Review by Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times, January 18, 2010.
- Jack Covert Selects -- Freefall, Review by Jack Covert, 800 CEO Read, January 15, 2010.
- The Meltdown According to Stiglitz, Review by James Pressley, Bloomberg BusinessWeek, January 14, 2010.
- Stiglitz Scolds "No Drama" Obama for Failing to Rebuild Economy, Review by James Pressley, Bloomberg News, January 8, 2010.
- 2019: US National Debt Will Reach 70% of GDP, FirstLook Review by Loyd Eskildson, Basil and Spice Financial Well-Being Blog, January 3, 2010.
Interviews with Professor Stiglitz
- Joseph Stiglitz - Time to reinvent the global economy, African Business (IC Publications), March 2010.
- It's the Economy, KGNU-NPR, March 11, 2010.
- Q&A: Stiglitz, Joseph - Nobel Prize (Economics) & Author, KPFK-FM 'Free Forum with Terrence McNally', March 10, 2010.
- What future for capitalism?, Al Jazeera, March 3, 2010.
- A Leading Economist Mulls the Next Crisis, by Tiernan Ray, Barron's, March 2, 2010.
- The Tavis Smiley Show, KCTS-TV, February 26, 2010.
- KCTS9 Connects/Conversations/Serious Money, February 26, 2010.
- Q&A: Nobel winner Joseph Stiglitz says hubris and ideology are to blame for the economy's woes, Oregon Business News, February 26, 2010.
- Freefalling: Nobel-Winning Economist Joseph Stiglitz Talks To Seattlest, Seattlest, February 25, 2010.
- Joseph Stiglitz: Bankers Made Reckless Bets on the Economy, Knowing Taxpayers Were Going to Pick up the Tab, AlterNet - News and Politics, February 25, 2010.
- Joseph Stiglitz isn't FreeFalling, Southern California Public Radio - 'Patt Morrison Show', February 24, 2010.
- Economist Joseph Stiglitz Analyzes Financial Crisis, Chicago Public Radio - Worldview, February 23, 2010.
- Stopping the Freefall, The First Business Network, February 23, 2010.
- The Marc Steiner Show, February 22, 2010.
- Economics of Healthcare Reform, KCBS-AM 'Morning News', February 22, 2010.
- Freefall: America, Free Markets, and the Sinking of the World Economy, KQED-FM 'Forum with Michael Krasny', February 22, 2010.
- Nobel Economist Joseph Stiglitz on Obama's Stimulus Plan, Debt, Climate Change, and 'Freefall: America, Free Markets, and the Sinking of the World Economy', Democracy Now, February 18, 2010.
- 'Freefall' with Joseph Stiglitz, KUOW-FM 'The Conversation', February 18, 2010.
- Freefall: America, Free Markets, and the Sinking of the World Economy, WILL-AM 'Focus 580 with David Inge',February 18, 2010.
- Lang & O'Leary Exchange, February 16, 2010. (The interview starts at 12:00)
- Nobel Winner Joseph Stiglitz on Freefall, TheStreet, February 16, 2010.
- Joseph Stiglitz: Robin Hood who wants to tax the rich for the poor, By Chris Blackhurst, London Evening Standard, February 10, 2010.
- 'Burn' The Speculators, Says Top Economist, Sky 'Jeff Randall' Show, February 8, 2010.
- Book: Freefall: Free Markets and the Sinking of the Global Economy, RT -- Today with Pat Kenny, February 8, 2010.
- Andrew Marr Interviews Joseph Stiglitz, BBC Radio 4 'Start the Week', February 8, 2010.
- Nobel laureate assesses economy, assigns blame, The Boston Globe, February 7, 2010.
- Papantonio and Joseph Stiglitz on the Economic Freefall, (Part 1), Air American Radio - Ring of Fire, February 1, 2010. Click here for Part 2.
- Stiglitz Says Obama's Focus on Jobs 'A Little Late', Bloomberg, January 28, 2010.
- Joseph Stiglitz and John Paulson, The Economist, January 28, 2010.
- Stiglitz Would Accept Fed Chairman Position, The Young Turks, January 27, 2010.
- Letters to Washington, KPFA-FM, January 26, 2010.
- Legacy of the economic debacle, Minnesota Public Radio (MPR) - Midmorning,January 25, 2010.
- US economy needs a second stimulus, The Christian Science Monitor, January 22, 2010.
- Joseph Stiglitz: Freefall, NPR - "The Diane Rehm Show," January 21, 2010.
- 7 Minutes with Joseph Stiglitz: Hopes Geithner and Summers Learn from Serious Errors, The Washington Note (Steve Clemons), January 21, 2010.
- Nobel laureate Stiglitz on the economy, BBC America - "BBC World News America," January 21, 2010.
- How to prevent another free fall in the economy. Plus: where are we headed fiscally in 2010?, WOR News Talk Radio - "The John Gambling Show," January 21, 2010.
- Stiglitz Says Recovery 'Nowhere Near Robust', with Tom Keene, Bloomberg on the Economy, January 20, 2010.
- HuffPost Interviews Joseph Stiglitz: 'We're More Strict With Our Poor Than With Our Banks', The Huffington Post, January 20, 2010.
- One on One with Nobel Prize-Winning Economist Joseph Stiglitz, PBS "Nightly Business Report," January 19, 2010.
- Thom Hartmann discusses the American economy with Professor Joseph Stiglitz (transcript), KPOJ-AM - "Thom Hartmann Program," January 19, 2010.
- Parting Nobel Shots, CNBC SQUAWK BOX, January 19, 2010.
- The Leonard Lopate Show: Global Economics and Gospel, WNYC-FM, January 18, 2010.
- Stiglitz Says Government Misses Mark On Economy, hosted by Robert Siegel, NPR "All things considered," January 15, 2010. Click here for the transcript of the interview.
Online Media and Related Book Events
- Joseph Stiglitz gives Obama a letter grade, By Andrew Leonard, Salon, February 23, 2010.
- Joseph Stiglitz: Freefall, Talk at Commonwealth Club with Andrew Leonard, San Francisco, February 22, 2010.
- Joseph Stiglitz in Conversation with Evan Davis, Intelligence Squared, February 9, 2010.
- Ralph Miliband and Global Policy public lecture: Freefall, LSE Public lecture, Feburary 8, 2010.
- Stiglitz Faults Fed, Banks For Crisis, The Harvard Crimson, January 26, 2010.
- Online chat: FDL Book Salon Welcomes Joseph Stiglitz, Freefall: America, Free Markets, and the Sinking of the World Economy, Fire Dog Lake, January 24, 2010.
- Global Economic Trends: A Conversation with Joseph E. Stiglitz, Council on Foreign Relations, January 21, 2010.
- Freefall, with moderator Steve Clemons, The New America Foundation, January 20, 2010.
The Three Trillion Dollar War
Named one of the Books of the Year by The Economist and Bloomberg.
- How the US and Britain Went Wrong in Iraq, Review by Kit R. Roane, L.A. Times, March 30, 2008.
- Five Years in, Cost of Iraq War Exceeds Early Estimates, report by Paul Solman, NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, March 26, 2008.
- Iraq, $5,000 Per Second? By Nicholas Kristof, The New York Times, March 23, 2008.
- False Economies, by Glenn C. Altschuler, Jerusalem Post, March 21, 2008.
- Estimates of Iraq War Cost Were Not Close to Ballpark, by David Herszenhorn, New York Times, March 19, 2008.
- Iraq war costs inspire shock and awe, By Stephen Fidler, The Financial Times, Monday, March 17, 2008.
- What's the Tab? Reviewed by Carlos Lozada, The Washington Post, Sunday, March 16, 2008.
- $3 Trillion is Just a Part of the Cost, by Olivia Ward, The Toronto Star, March 16, 2008.
- A $3 trillion debacle, Boston Globe, Saturday, March 15, 2008.
- Eyeing the wages of war, The Economist, March 13, 2008.
- ANALYSIS-U.S. economists see long-term ills from Iraq war, By Richard Cowan, Reuters, March 13, 2008.
- Book: Iraq costs U.S. $12B per month, USA Today, March, 2008.
- Iraq: Five years later and time to go, The Phoenix, March 12, 2008.
- Joseph Stiglitz: The $3 Trillion Dollar War, Review by Sam Leith, The Telegraph (UK), March 8, 2008.
- Conflict is Costing Trillions - "They Can Explain the Benefits", by Michael Glackin, The Independent (UK), Sunday, March 9, 2008.
- The $2 Trillion Nightmare, by Bob Herbert, New York Times, March 4, 2008.
- The Cold Price of Hot Blood, by Gary Kamiya, Salon.com, March 4, 2008.
- Nobelist Stiglitz Tallies Iraq War's Outrageous Cost: Review, by Charles Taylor, Bloomberg News, March 4, 2008.
- Read Our Book Before Rushing to Judgment, by Joseph Stiglitz and Linda Bilmes, Financial Times, March 5, 2008, in response to the review, A War Appraisal Too Vast to Swallow, by Tunku Varadarajan, Financial Times, March 3, 2008.
- The $3,000,000,000,000 War is a Domestic Issue, by Arianna Huffington, Huffington Post, March 3, 2008.
- War Hits US Economy, Stalls Recovery, by Daniel Trotta, Reuters, March 3, 2008.
- The Cost of Conflict, interview with Rana Foroohar, Newsweek, March 3, 2008 issue.
- The Cost of the Iraq War, interview with Scott Jagow, Marketplace, March 3, 2008.
- Wars' True Cost More than $3 Trillion, by Kevin G. Hall, McClatchy Newspapers, February 29, 2008.
- The Three Trillion Dollar War, interview with Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez, Democracy Now, February 29, 2008.
- Iraq War Will Cost Up to $5 Trillion, by Bob Deans, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, February 28, 2008.
- The True Cost of War, by Aida Edemariam, The Guardian (UK), February 28, 2008.
- One Iraq War - that's $3 Trillion to You, Mr. Bush, by David Smith, The Sunday Times (London), February 24, 2008.
Making Globalization Work
- "Still Discontented," by Jim Patterson, The Foreign Service Journal, Vol. 84, No. 5, May 2007.
- "Time for a Reality Check," by CT Kurien, The Hindu, January 30, 2007.
- "To Have and Have Not," by Jeffrey Frieden, The New York Times, December 24, 2006.
- "The World is Tilted," by John Hoberman, The Austin American-Statesman, October 25, 2006.
- "Making Globalization Work": Nobel winner's fresh views on globalization, Seattle Times, by Bruce Ramsey, October 13, 2006.
- "Making Globalization Work" presents brave obversations, USA Today, by Russ Juskalian, October 2, 2006.
- The Perfect Imperfection of Markets, Salon.com, How the World Works by Andrew Leonard, September 21, 2006.
- Rebel With Authority, Newsweek, Global Investor by Jeffrey E. Garten, September 25, 2006.
- In Review: Making Globalization Work, The Evening Standard, September 6, 2006.
- Economist Preaches Unified Solution to World Problems, The Sunday Herald, Glasgow, by Ken Symon and Ian Fraser, September 3, 2006.
- Making £4 Jeans a Bargain for the Whole World, The Sunday Times, by Stuart Wavell, August 27, 2006.
Economic Costs of War in Iraq
- "Iraq and Your Wallet," by Nicholas Kristof, New York Times, October 24, 2006.
- "Cost of Bush's War? Just Keep Adding Zeroes," by Robyn E. Blumner, St. Petersburg Times, October 1, 2006.
- "The War is Bad for the Economy," Interview in Der Spiegel magazine, April 5, 2006.
- "George Bush's Trillion Dollar War," by Bob Herbert, The New York Times, March 23, 2006
- "The High Cost of the Iraq War," The Economist's Voice, Vol. 3: No. 3, Article 5, March 2006.
- "A Careless War of Excessive Cost -- Human and Economic," by Linda Bilmes and Joseph Stiglitz, San Francisco Chronicle, Sunday, January 22, 2006, pg. D-8.
- "War's Stunning Price Tag," Op-Ed by Dr. Stiglitz and Linda Bilmes from LA Times, January 17, 2006
- "America Failed to Calculate the Enormous Costs of War", by Martin Wolf, The Financial Times, January 11, 2006
- "Economists Say Cost of War Could Top $2 Trillion," by Bryan Bender, The Boston Globe, January 8, 2006
- "Iraq War Could Cost US Over $2 trillion, says Nobel Prize-Winning Economist," by Jamie Wilson, The Guardian, January 7, 2006
Fair Trade for All
- "The Poor get Poorer," Review by Robert B. Reich in the New York Times, April 2, 2006.
- Review, by Richard N. Cooper in Foreign Affairs, March/April 2006 issue.
- "Fair Trade for All: The Market for Global Justice", Review by Paul Kingsnorth in The Independent, December 23, 2005.
The Roaring Nineties
- "Harping on the Deficit May Undo the Dems," Review by Robert Kuttner in Business Week, November 24, 2003.
- "Too Good to be True: A Penetrating Look at How the Third Way Became an Economic Tar Pit," by David Maraniss, Washington Post review, November 23, 2003.
- "It Wasn't Deficit Reduction," Review by Louis Uchitelle in the The American Prospect, November 1, 2003.
- "Where Did All the Money Go? Two Versions of One Sad Story," review by Stephen Metcalfe in the New York Observer, October 13, 2003.
- "An Economist for All Seasons," review by Andrew Leonard, Salon.com, October 16, 2003.
Globalization and Its Discontents
- Globalization and its Discontents: The masters of world finance preach austerity for others and practise hand-outs for themselves," by Robin Blackburn, review in the Independent, August 10, 2002.
- "Globalization: Stiglitz's Case," review by Benjamin Friedman in the New York Review of Books, August 15, 2002.
- "The Great Gadfly," by Lenora Todaro, in the Village Voice, June 3, 2002.
- "Where Global Markets Are Going Wrong," by Michael J. Mandel, review in the Business Week, June 17, 2002.