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

Founding Committee for the International Panel on Inequality

Chair

High-Level Expert Group on the Measurement of Economic Performance and Social Progress, OECD

Co-Chair

Open Letters (For information purposes only)

A Nobel prizewinner in economics and a Brazilian academic respond to our article, with Laura Carvalho, The Economist, May 12, 2026.
Letter from 220 Economists and Legal Scholars to Colombian President Gustavo Petro Calling for Action on ISDS, March 23, 2026.
Statement by leading economists and academics on Sri Lanka’s Climate Crisis and IMF Restructuring Deal, Institute of Political Economy and Debt Justice, December, 2025.
Open Letter to Ministers of Finance and Governors of Central Banks, the Governors and Alternate Governors of the World Bank Group and International Monetary Fund, and the Leaders of the International Financial Institutions, October 12, 2025.

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Articles and OpEds

Trump’s Tragedy of Errors, Project Syndicate, April 27, 2026.
Tax day is a reminder of America’s unequal tax system. But we can fix it, with Gabriel Zucman and New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani, The Guardian, April 15, 2026. In French in Le Monde.
John Maynard Keynes Saved Capitalism From Itself, By Invitation, The Economist, April 8, 2026.
Nobelprismodtager: Intet i moderne økonomier forhindrer en retfærdig beskatning af ekstrem velstand, Politiken (Denmark), March 23, 2026.
Why Meta should shoulder the burden of stopping deep fake adverts, with Anya Schiffrin, The Point Weekend (Australia) March 12, 2026.
Inequality Will Make the Next Pandemic Worse, with Monica Geingos and Michael Marmot, Project Syndicate, February 20, 2026.
Non Dimentichiamo i Poveri, L'Osservatore Romano (Italy), February 20, 2026.
Trump's Tariff Fantasy Collides with Economic Reality, with Mike Konczal, Boston Globe, February 13, 2026.
Will Democracy Govern Capitalism - or Be Consumed by It? with Jayati Ghosh, Project Syndicate, February 6, 2026.
America’s New Age of Empire, Project Syndicate, January 9, 2026.
The Other Invisible Hand, with Karla Hoff and Allison Demeritt, The Agency Fund (blog), January 8, 2026.

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Speeches and Panels

Address to the public session of the International Panel on Inequality, Wits University, Johannesburg, South Africa, April 24, 2026. UN Secretary-General's address, here.
Innovation and misinformation in the AI era, with Màxim Ventura-Bolet, Stanford Digital Economy Lab, April 16, 2026.
Mayor Mamdani Holds Tax Day Forum with Economists Gabriel Zucman and Joseph Stiglitz, New York, April 15, 2026. Transcript here.
Prof. Joseph Stiglitz discusses the impact of AI and digital platforms on the information ecosystem, Virtual Keynote, Cambridge Disinformation Summit, April 9, 2026.
Progressive Trade Policy in a Changing Global Order, with Martin Guzman, Initiative for Policy Dialogue and the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung Meeting, Brussels, March 17, 2026.
A Better Paradigm to Achieve a Better Society, Conference in honor of Dennis Snower, February 27, 2026.
Why democracies need to collect more corporate tax with Professor Joseph Stiglitz, The Australia Institute, February 10, 2026.
Keynote, Market Power in Transition: Antitrust in the Age of Digital and AI-Driven Markets, Columbia University, February 6, 2026.
Keynote, JAPAN-ASEAN BRIDGES Conference, United Nations University, Tokyo, January 15, 2026. Slide deck here.

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Spotlight

G20 Extraordinary Committee of Independent Experts on Global Inequality

Commissioned by the G20 South Africa Presidency November 2025

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Technical Note

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Papers and Briefs

Working Papers

Steering Technological Progress, with Anton Korinek, NBER Working Paper 34994, March, 2026.
Employment Impacts of the CHIPS Act, with Bilge Erten and Eric Verhoogan, NBER Working Paper 34625, January, 2026.
The Impact of AI and Digital Platforms on the Information Ecosystem, with Maxim Ventura-Bolet, NBER Working Paper 34318, October 6, 2025.
Overlapping Generations Models, Multiplicity of Steady States and Momentary Equilibria, and Economic Fluctuations, with Tomohiro Hirano, NBER Working Paper 34193, September 1, 2025.

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Published Papers

Introduction to Special Issue on Claude Henry, Annals of Economics and Statistics, No. 161, March 2026, pp. 3-6
Information in the Age of AI: Challenges and Solutions, with Maxim Ventura-Bolet, The Digitalist Papers, Vol. 2, December, 2025.
Overlapping generations models, multiplicity of steady states and momentary equilibria, and economic fluctuations, with Tomohiro Hirano, Oxford Review of Economic Policy, November 10, 2025.
Employment Impacts of the CHIPS Act, with Bilge Erten and Eric Verhoogen, Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, September 24, 2025.
Industrial Policy and the New Protectionism, Journal of Policy Modeling, Vol. 47 (4) July-August, 2025, pp. 708-722
Equity prices, market power, and optimal corporate tax policy, with Ignacio González and Juan A. Montecino, European Economic Review, Vol. 176, July 2025.
New Report: How New York State Lawmakers Can Help Address Debt Crises in the Global South, with Martin Guzman, Initiative for Policy Dialogue, January 16, 2025.

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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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The Road to Freedom: Economics and the Good Society

W.W. Norton, April, 2024. Also published in the UK by Allen Lane/Penguin. Published in Dutch by Querido Facto, in Italian by Einaudi, in Spanish by Taurus, in French by Les Liens Qui Libèrent (France) and Madrigall (Canada), in German by Siedler Verlag, in Korean by Book 21, in Japanese by Toyo Kezai, in Portuguese by Benvirá and in Polish by MT Biznes.