Making Globalization Work

Stiglitz, Joseph E.

ISBN 10: 0393061221 / ISBN 13: 9780393061222

Published by W.W. Norton, 2006

About this Item

Joseph E. Stiglitz, a former Yale, Princeton and Stanford professor, spent most of the 1990s atop the commanding heights of this globalizing economy, first as the chairman of Bill Clinton s Council of Economic Advisers and then as chief economist at the World Bank. After returning to academia with a position at Columbia, Stiglitz became one of three recipients of the 2001 Nobel Memorial Prize for his research on the economics of information. Stiglitz won the Nobel for exploring how uncertainty and poor information can make markets fail. Here he takes evident pleasure in showing how an examination of incomplete markets can make corrective government policies desirable. First printing. Size: 6½" - 9½".

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Making Globalization Work
• Publisher: W.W. Norton
• Publication Date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0393061221
• ISBN 13: 9780393061222
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Printing: First printing
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
• Book Type: book

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Synopsis

“A damning denunciation of things as they are, and a platform for how we can do better.”―Andrew Leonard, Salon

Four years after he outlined the challenges our increasingly interdependent world was facing in Globalization and Its Discontents, Joseph E. Stiglitz offered his agenda for reform. Now in paperback, Making Globalization Work offers inventive solutions to a host of problems, including the indebtedness of developing countries, international fiscal instability, and worldwide pollution. Stiglitz also argues for the reform of global financial institutions, trade agreements, and intellectual property laws, to make them better able to respond to the growing disparity between the richest and poorest countries. Now more than ever before, globalization has gathered the peoples of the world into one community, bringing with it a need to think and act globally. This trenchant, intellectually powerful book is an invaluable step in that process. This paperback edition contains a brand-new preface.

About the Author

Joseph E. Stiglitz is a Nobel Prize–winning economist and the best-selling author of People, Power, and Profits; Globalization and Its Discontents Revisited; The Price of Inequality; and Freefall. He was chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers under President Clinton, chief economist of the World Bank, and now teaches at Columbia University and is chief economist of the Roosevelt Institute.