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New realities shape young minds
News, Joseph Stiglitz, Published on 28/03/2016
» Something interesting has emerged in voting patterns on both sides of the Atlantic: young people are voting in ways that are markedly different from their elders. A great divide appears to have opened up, based not so much on income, education or gender as on the voters' generation.
Wealth gap ushers in premature deaths
News, Joseph Stiglitz, Published on 12/12/2015
» This week, Angus Deaton will receive the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics “for his analysis of consumption, poverty and welfare”. Deservedly so. Indeed, soon after the award was announced in October, Mr Deaton published some startling work with Ann Case in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences — research that is at least as newsworthy as the Nobel ceremony.
Greece didn't fail, but the EU's debt moralising did
News, Joseph Stiglitz, Published on 06/02/2015
» When the euro crisis began a half-decade ago, Keynesian economists predicted that the austerity that was being imposed on Greece and the other crisis countries would fail. It would stifle growth and increase unemployment — and even fail to decrease the debt-to-GDP ratio.