America currently has the most inequality, and the least equality of opportunity, among the advanced countries. While market forces play a role in this stark picture, politics has shaped those market forces. In this best-selling book, Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph E. Stiglitz exposes the effo[...]

What should be the role of government in society? How should it design its programs? How should tax systems be designed to promote both efficiency and fairness? Nobel Laureate Joseph Stiglitz and new co-author Jay Rosengard use their first-hand policy-advising experience to address these key issues [...]

This classic introduction to public finance remains the best advanced-level textbook on the subject ever written. First published in 1980, Lectures on Public Economics still tops reading lists at many leading universities despite the fact that the book has been out of print for years. This new editi[...]

The current global financial crisis carries a "made in America" label. In this forthright and incisive book, Nobel Laureate Joseph E. Stiglitz explains how America exported bad economics, bad policies, and bad behavior to the rest of the world, only to cobble together a haphazard and ineffective res[...]

This powerful, unsettling audiobook gives us a rare glimpse behind the closed doors of global financial institutions by the winner of the 2001 Nobel Prize in Economics. When it was first published, this national bestseller quickly became a touchstone in the globalization debate. Renowned economist a[...]

Dette er en helt vesentlig bok for alle dem som gjerne vil ha dypere innsikt i globaliseringsprosessen og hvorfor den er urettferdig og mislykket.“Globaliseringen i dag fungerer ikke. Den fungerer ikke for mange av verdens fattige. Den fungerer ikke for mye av miljøet. Den fungerer ikke for st[...]

VÄRLDSEKONOMINS KRIS

När den ekonomiska krisen bröt ut 2008 miste miljontals människor över hela världen sina hem och arbete. Den kris som började i USA blev snabbt global och drabbade de fattiga länderna och folken extra hårt.

Joseph E. Stiglitz analyserar orsakerna b[...]

Sovereign Wealth Funds (SWFs) are state-owned investment funds with combined asset holdings that are fast approaching four trillion dollars. Recently emerging as a major force in global financial markets, SWFs have other distinctive features besides their state-owned status: they are mainly located [...]