Joseph Stiglitz

US President Donald Trump's recently announced import tariffs on steel, aluminum, and $60 billion in other goods that the US imports from China each year are in keeping with his record of responding to nonexistent problems. Unfortunately, while Trump captures the world's attention, serious real problems ...

Andrew Charlton is the author of Ozonomics and Fair Trade for All (with Joseph Stiglitz) and two Quarterly Essays, “Man-Made World” and “Dragon's Tail”. He is a co-founder of the strategic advisory business AlphaBeta. Lachlan Harris is the founder and CEO of RevTech Media. Not once did the printed ...

Noble Prize-winning economist and Columbia Professor Joesph Stiglitz has long presented his controversial opinions on what he sees as the shortcomings and dangers of Bitcoin. Prof. Stiglitz says Bitcoin Serves No Purpose. Stiglitz has been on the public record saying that Bitcoin should be made illegal ...

... China to borrow Brussels trade tactics to inflict 'MAXIMUM PAIN' on USA. EUROPEAN UNION trade war tactics will be borrowed by China to inflict “maximum pain” on the USA, according to renowned economist Joseph Stiglitz. By Joe Barnes. PUBLISHED: 11:00, Mon, Mar 26, 2018 | UPDATED: 14:35, Mon, Mar 26, 2018 ...

The Trump administration's blocking of the appointment of new World Trade Organization judges is worrying, said renowned economist Joseph Stiglitz. The "WTO appellate body is getting hamstrung," he said, referring to the seven-member panel in charge of international disputes. Nyshka Chandran ...

Nobel-prize winning economists Robert Shiller and Joseph Stiglitz were also at the annual meeting, and they predicted pain ahead for the U.S. economy if Beijing and Washington ramp up tit-for-tat trade penalties. U.S. companies, Shiller warned, are not prepared to have China cut out of their supply chains ...

But the events leading up to the Great Recession came as no surprise to Joseph Stiglitz, who won the Nobel Prize in economics in 2001. But fortune-telling wasn't why he got into economics. Instead, Stiglitz has spent decades tackling inequality. Stiglitz joins guest host Erik Spanberg to discuss what he's ...

As American economist Joseph Stiglitz explains in his book Globalization and Its Discontents: "Shortly after independence, [De Beers] paid Botswana $20 million for a diamond concession in 1969, which reportedly returned $60 million in profits a year. In other words, the payback period was [just] four ...

... shared the company's 4 rules for hiring the best employees · Vanguard's chairman says every CEO of a public company should be able to answer 7 questions. SEE ALSO: The economist Joseph Stiglitz explains why he thinks the late Milton Friedman's ideas have contributed to rising inequality in the US.

At the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, in January, Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz said the decision to impose tariffs on imported solar cells was "weakening jobs." "There are already more jobs in renewable energy than there are in coal, so when Trump is putting a tariff barrier ...

Joseph Stiglitz is interviewed by the Institute for New Economic Thinking and he discusses income inequality and why it is time to get radical in addressing it. Two years hence, the Democrats will need to select a nominee for the presidency. Whomever it is, I hope they state in advance that, if elected, Stiglitz ...

More tellingly, Tillerson's official quoted Joseph Stiglitz and Jeffrey Sachs as to Ethiopia, mentioning that Starbucks aprons are made there. A quote, online: "they even do Fruit of the Loom and Starbucks apron productions. But we're looking at much more. So in other words, in our discussions with Nobel laureate Joseph ...

When Blodget opened the discussion to the panel he had assembled, Columbia University's Joseph Stiglitz remarked, "I want to emphasize that it was, in this period, not only activist shareholders but Milton Friedman," the late economist and fellow Nobel laureate, who was to blame for this prevailing ...

Almost a half-century after the enactment of antidiscrimination laws, racism, greed, and market power still work together to the disadvantage of African-Americans. By. JosephE. Stiglitz. NEW YORK (Project Syndicate) — In 1967, riots erupted in cities throughout the United States, from Newark to Detroit and ...

America still divided by racism into two separate, unequal societies. Fifty years later, Joseph Stiglitz writes, the Kerner Commission's conclusion still rings true — “Our Nation is moving toward two societies, one black, one white — separate and unequal.” ...

Surprisingly, this Trump administration official quoted Joseph Stiglitz and Jeffrey Sachs as to Ethiopia, mentioning that Starbucks aprons are made there. A quote, online: "they even do Fruit of the Loom and Starbucks apron productions. But we're looking at much more. So in other words, in our discussions with Nobel ...

It is curious to note that among the major critics of these new currencies are the most prominent investors and academics such as Warren Buffett, Ben Bernanke, Joseph Stiglitz and Paul Krugman. In a quite different position, Stefan Ingves, Governor of the central bank of Sweden, said in a Bloomberg TV ...

The new study is called “Healing Our Divided Society” and is edited by Harris and Alan Curtis, president of the Eisenhower Foundation, with contributions from a 23-member National Advisory Council of distinguished Americans, including Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz. Among the new ...

That led at least two Nobel laureates — Paul Krugman and Joseph Stiglitz — to warn that additional hikes are the last thing a deflationary economy needs. What's more, the intended goal — paying down government debt — backfired. Tokyo upped borrowing to offset the headwinds. And yet here we are, ...

NEW YORK – Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz said Friday that reappointing Haruhiko Kuroda as Bank of Japan governor would be a “very good decision.” “I think that would be a very good decision. I think he is certainly among the very top of the central bankers of the world — among the ...

The survey indicates that impact of climate change could be extremely high in un-irrigated areas if an adequate policy response is not brought in time. New Delhi: At the World Economic Forum in Davos, well-known economist Joseph Stiglitz held forth rather favourably on the Indian economy but reserved ...

The CEOs of Davos were euphoric this year about the return to growth, strong profits, and soaring executive compensation. Economists reminded them that this growth is not sustainable, and has never been inclusive; but in a world where greed is always good, such arguments have little impact. DAVOS ...

Nobel Prize winning American economist Joseph Stiglitz will receive the 2018 Sydney Peace Prize in recognition of contribution to tackling the global inequality crisis. The former economic adviser to the Clinton administration and Chief Economist at the World Bank will come to Sydney to deliver the City of ...

He says the American business community is living in fear: “You feel the fear they have, the fear to criticise him unless they'll unleash a wave of tweets. He has instilled a level of fear that I have never seen in this country.” • Joseph Stiglitz will speak at events for the Sydney Peace Foundation in November.

World-renowned economist Joseph Stiglitz called US President Donald Trump a “demagogue” whose moves toward an all-out trade war with China will result in a “pervasive tax” that will hit the poorest Americans hardest. Speaking to the South China Morning Post on the sidelines of the China Institute ...

Joseph Stiglitz, economics professor at Columbia University, gestures as he speaks during a panel session on day three of the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, Switzerland, on Thursday, January 25, 2018. Jason Alden / Bloomberg ...

Chief Economic Adviser Arvind Subramanian, Economic Advisory Council to the Prime Minister Chairman Bibek Debroy, Nobel laureate economist Joseph Stiglitz , Future Group Chairman Kishore Biyani, Hero MotoCorp Chairman Pawan Munjal, State Bank of India Chairman Rajnish Kumar ICICI Bank ...

China can't be seen to be weak on trade against a 'bully' like U.S. President Donald Trump because appeasement will lead to more and more demands, said Nobel prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz. “Particularly when you have a bully like Trump, it would not be good to respond in a weak way,” said ...

Nobel laureate and globally acclaimed economist Joseph Stiglitz said that employment and environment are the two big worries for the Indian economy ... Nobel laureate Joseph Stiglitz said that the trade tariffs will hurt American car sales and other cheap imports like clothes and will alienate those people ...