From Nobel Prize-winning economist and bestselling author Joseph Stiglitz, this account of the dangers of free market fundamentalism reveals what has gone so wrong, but also shows us a way out. We all have the sense that our economy tilts toward big business, but as Joseph E....

Can the Euro be saved? Should it be? Nobel prize-winning economist Joseph E. Stiglitz dismantles the prevailing consensus around what ails Europe - arguing that economic stagnation is a direct result of the Euro\"s flawed birth, demolishing the champions of austerity and offering solutions that can rescue the continent from further devastation....

The euro was supposed to bring Europe closer together and promote prosperity; in fact, it has done just the opposite. The 2008 crisis revealed the shortcomings of the euro, and Europe\"s stagnation and bleak outlook are a direct result of the......

Why has inequality increased in the Western world - and what can we do about it? In The Great Divide, Joseph E. Stiglitz argues that inequality is a choice - the cumulative result of unjust policies and misguided priorities. In these essays, articles......

A longtime favorite among teachers and students, Economics of the Public Sector returns to the classroom in a fresh edition that has been fully revised to reflect the latest developments in public policy and economic research....

El 1 % de la poblacion disfruta de las mejores viviendas, la mejor educacion, los mejores medicos y el mejor nivel de vida, pero hay una cosa que el dinero no puede comprar: la comprension de que su destino esta ligado a como vive el otro 99%. A lo largo de la historia esto es algo que esa minoria solo ha logrado entender......

\"The Three Trillion Dollar War\" is a devastating reckoning of the true cost of the Iraq war - quite apart from its tragic human toll - which the Bush administration estimated at $50 billion, but which Stiglitz and Bilmes show underestimates......

This is the second of six volumes in a series of selected scientific papers by one of the world\'s most distinguished economists....

Nobel Laureate Joseph Stiglitz explains why we are experiencing such destructively high levels of inequality - and why this is not inevitable. The social impact of inequality is now increasingly understood - higher crime, health problems and mental illness, lower educational achievements and life expectancy....

The fact that our global economy is broken may be widely accepted, but what precisely needs to be fixed has become the subject of enormous controversy....

The international community\'s commitment to halve global poverty by 2015 has been enshrined in the first Millennium Development Goal. How global poverty is measured is a critical element in assessing progress towards this goal, and different researchers have presented widely-varying estimates....

This volume addresses one of the most topical and controversial issues in banking and financial policy. It explains why governments have felt the need to liberalize banking and finance, for example, by privatizing banks and allowing interest rates to be set by the market....

Winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics and author of the New York Times bestselling book Globalization and Its Discontents, Joseph E. Stiglitz here joins with fellow economist Andrew Charlton to offer a challenging and controversial argument about how glbalization can actually help Third World countries to develop and prosper....

Nobel Prize winner Joseph E. Stiglitz explains the current financial crisis — and the coming global economic order. The current global financial crisis carries a “made-in-America” label. In this forthright and incisive book, Nobel Laureate Joseph E....

\"A disproportionate amount of the best in modern economics is Stiglitz\'s creation. This book uses it to illuminate a classic question concerning the organization of the public side of our lives....