Joseph Stiglitz Lectures
Joseph Stiglitz - The Price of Inequality via PdxJustice
Nobel Prize winning economis, author and lecturer, Joseph Stiglitz, talks about his latest book, THE PRICE OF INEQUALITY: HOW TODAY'S DIVIDED SOCIETY ENDANGERS OUR FUTURE. Joseph Stiglitz spoke at the Cedar Hills Crossing Powell's Bookstore in Beaverton, Oregon, on June 14th, 2012. To find out more about the author, please visit his website @ JosephStiglitz.com. This program was produced by PdxJustice Media Productions of Portland, Oregon.
Joseph Stiglitz - "The Global Financial Crisis averted?" via ANU TV
In this landmark lecture entitled 'Crisis averted? Lessons from the Global Financial Crisis' Nobel Laureate and distinguished Fellow of the Asia & the Pacific Policy Society, Professor Joseph Stiglitz, examines the origins of the GFC, analyses the economic policy responses and discusses whether the crisis really has been averted. He also looks at what's right, and wrong, with contemporary policy stances.
The Global Financial Crisis (GFC) radically changed the view and role of economics and gave the world a worrying new perspective on the significance of economic shocks. But was the global policy response right? Will it happen again?
Professor Stiglitz is widely recognised as one of the world's leading economists. He is a University Professor at Columbia University, New York, having previously taught at Oxford, Yale, MIT, Stanford, and Princeton.
In 2001, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in economics for his analyses of markets with asymmetric information, and he was a lead author of the 1995 report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which shared the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize. In 2011, Time named Professor Stiglitz one of the 100 most influential people in the world. He is now serving as President of the International Economic Association.
He was a member of the Council of Economic Advisers (CEA) during the Clinton administration, and served as CEA chairman from 1995-97. He then became Chief Economist and Senior Vice-President of the World Bank. In 2008 he was asked by the French President, Nicolas Sarkozy, to chair the Commission on the Measurement of Economic Performance and Social Progress. He now chairs a high level expert group at the OECD attempting to further advance these ideas. In 2009 he was appointed by the President of the United Nations General Assembly as chair of the Commission of Experts on Reform of the International Financial and Monetary System.
Prof. Stiglitz's visit is sponsored by Crawford School of Public Policy at The Australian National University.
Joseph E. Stiglitz - The Great Divide :
Why has inequality increased in the Western world and what can we do about it?
via London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)
Why has inequality increased in the Western world and what can we do about it? In this new book, The Great Divide, which he will talk about in this public lecture, 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. Stiglitz argues that inequality is a choice: the cumulative result of unjust policies and misguided priorities. Ultimately, Stiglitz believes our choice is not between growth and fairness; with the right policies, we can choose both.
Joseph Stiglitz ( JosephStiglitz.com ) was Chief Economist at the World Bank until January 2000. He is currently University Professor of the Columbia Business School, and Chair of the Management Board and Director of Graduate Summer Programs at the Brooks World Poverty Institute, University of Manchester. He won the Nobel Prize for Economics in 2001 and is the best-selling author of Globalization and Its Discontents, The Roaring Nineties, Making Globalization Work, Freefall and The Price of Inequality, all published by Penguin.
The new International Inequalities Institute ( LSE Inequalities ) at LSE will bring together experts from many LSE departments and centres to lead critical and cutting edge research to understand why inequalities are escalating in numerous arenas across the world, and to develop critical tools to address these challenges.