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Efficiency, Finance, and Varieties of Industrial Policy - Guiding Resources, Learning, and Technology for Sustained Growth by Akbar Noman (Editor); Joseph E. Stiglitz (Editor)
Category: Reference | Series: Initiative for Policy Dialogue at Columbia: Challenges in Development and Globalization Ser.
Industrial policy, once relegated to resource allocation, technological improvements, and the modernization of industries, should be treated as a serious component of sustainability and developmental economics. A rich set of complimentary institutions, shared behavioral norms, and public policies have s ...Show more
Fair Trade for All: How Trade Can Promote Development by Joseph E. Stiglitz
Category: Nature | Series: Initiative for Policy Dialogue Ser.
How can the poorer countries of the world be helped to help themselves through freer, fairer trade? In this challenging and controversial book Nobel prize-winning economist Joseph E. Stiglitz and his co-author Andrew Charlton address one of the key issues facing world leaders today. They put forward a r ...Show more
Freefall by Joseph E Stiglitz
Category: Business
This devastating and inspiring book, by one of the world's leading economic thinkers, lays out not only the course of the financial crisis which began in 2007, but its underlying causes, and shows why much more radical reforms are needed than are currently being contemplated if we are to avoid similar ' ...Show more
Freefall: Free Markets and the Sinking of the Global Economy by Joseph Stiglitz
Category: Accessories
This devastating and inspiring book, by one of the world's leading economic thinkers, lays out not only the course of the financial crisis which began in 2007, but its underlying causes, and shows why much more radical reforms are needed than are currently being contemplated if we are to avoid similar ' ...Show more
Globalization and Its Discontents by Joseph Stiglitz
Category: Non-Fiction
From Nobel laureate Joseph Stiglitz, Globalization and its Discontents is the bestselling expose of the all-powerful organizations that control our lives.Joseph Stiglitz's landmark book lifted the lid on how globalization was hurting those it was meant to help. Many of its predictions came true, and it ...Show more
Globalization and Its Discontents by Joseph E. Stiglitz (Professor of Finance and Economics, Columbia University, USA)
Category: Business
Our world is changing. Globalisation is not working. It is hurting those it was meant to help. And now, the tide is turning . . . Explosive and shocking, Globalization and Its Discontents is the bestselling expose of the all-powerful organisations that control our lives - from the man who has seen them ...Show more
Great Divide by Joseph Stiglitz
Category: Architecture
Why has inequality increased in the Western world - and what can we do about it? In The Great Divide, Joseph E Stiglitz expands on the diagnosis he offered in his best-selling book The Price of Inequality and suggests ways to counter this growing problem. With his characteristic blend of clarity and pas ...Show more
Measuring What Counts - A New Dashboard for Well-Being by Joseph E. Stiglitz; Jean-Paul Fitoussi; Martine Durand
Category: Business
A bold agenda for a better way to assess societal well-being, by three of the world's leading economists and statisticians "If we want to put people first, we have to know what matters to them, what improves their well-being, and how we can supply more of whatever that is."--Joseph E. Stiglitz In 2009 ...Show more
People, Power and Profits (HB) by Joseph Stiglitz
Category: Business
We all have the sense that the American economy-and its government-tilts toward big business, but as Joseph E. Stiglitz explains in his powerful new book, People, Power, and Profits, the situation is dire. A few corporations have come to dominate entire sectors of the economy, contributing to skyrocket ...Show more
People, Power, and Profits: Progressive Capitalism for an Age of Discontent by Joseph Stiglitz
Category: Business
We all have the sense that our economy tilts toward big business, but, as Joseph E. Stiglitz explains in People, Power, and Profits, a few corporations now dominate entire sectors, contributing to skyrocketing inequality and slow growth. This is how the financial industry has managed to write its own re ...Show more
Price of Inequality by Joseph Stiglitz
Category: Business
The social impact of inequality is now increasingly understood - higher crime, health problems and mental illness, lower educational achievements and life expectancy. But what are the causes of inequality, why is it growing so rapidly and what are its economic and political impacts? In this exceptional ...Show more
The Euro: And its Threat to the Future of Europe by Joseph Stiglitz
Category: Business
Designed to bring Europe closer together, the euro has actually done the opposite: after nearly a decade without growth, unity has been replaced with dissent and enlargements with prospective exits. Joseph Stiglitz argues that Europe's stagnation and bleak outlook are a direct result of the fundamental ...Show more