Authors: Joseph E. Stiglitz
ISBN-13: 9780393330281, ISBN-10: 0393330281
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Norton, W. W. & Company, Inc.
Date Published: September 2007
Edition: Reprint
Winner of the 2001 Nobel Memorial Prize for Economics, Joseph E. Stiglitz is the author of Making Globalization Work; Globalization and Its Discontents; and, with Linda Bilmes, The Three Trillion Dollar War. He was chairman of President Clinton's Council of Economic Advisers and served as senior vice president and chief economist at the World Bank. He teaches at Columbia University and lives in New York City.
“A damning denunciation of things as they are, and a platform for how we can do better.”—Andrew Leonard, Salon
Stiglitz has given us a well-written and informative primer on the major global economic problems. He helps his readers understand exactly what is at stake.
Ch. 1 | Another world is possible | 3 |
Ch. 2 | The promise of development | 25 |
Ch. 3 | Making trade fair | 61 |
Ch. 4 | Patents, profits, and people | 103 |
Ch. 5 | Lifting the resource curse | 133 |
Ch. 6 | Saving the planet | 161 |
Ch. 7 | The multinational corporation | 187 |
Ch. 8 | The burden of debt | 211 |
Ch. 9 | Reforming the global reserve system | 245 |
Ch. 10 | Democratizing globalization | 269 |