• BUSINESS

  Reform or divorce to cure euro zone malaise

  Business, Joseph Stiglitz, Published on 29/08/2016

  » To say that the euro zone has not been performing well since the 2008 crisis is an understatement. Its member countries have done more poorly than the European Union countries outside the euro zone, and much more poorly than the United States, which was the epicentre of the crisis.

• OPINION

  Looking to the future after Brexit fallout

  News, Joseph Stiglitz, Published on 09/07/2016

  » Digesting the full implications of the United Kingdom's "Brexit" referendum will take Britain, Europe and the world a long time. The most profound consequences will, of course, depend on the European Union's (EU) response to the UK's withdrawal.

• BUSINESS

  Brexit lesson for Europe: address the concerns of citizens

  Business, Joseph Stiglitz, Published on 11/07/2016

  » Digesting the full implications of the UK's "Brexit" referendum will take Britain, Europe, and the world a long time. The most profound consequences will, of course, depend on the EU's response to the UK's withdrawal. Most people initially assumed that the EU would not "cut off its nose to spite its face": after all, an amicable divorce seems to be in everyone's interest. But the divorce -- as many do -- could become messy.

• OPINION

  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.

• BUSINESS

  What's Holding Back the World Economy?

  Business, Joseph Stiglitz, Published on 15/02/2016

  » Seven years after the global financial crisis in 2008, the world economy continued to stumble in 2015. According to the UN report "World Economic Situation and Prospects 2016", the average growth rate in developed economies has declined by more than 54% since the crisis. Some 44 million people are unemployed in developed nations, about 12 million more than in 2007, while inflation has reached its lowest level since the crisis.

• OPINION

  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.

• OPINION

  In the new geo-economy, TPP fails

  News, Joseph Stiglitz, Published on 11/01/2016

  » Last year was a memorable one for the global economy. Not only was overall performance disappointing, but profound changes -- both for better and for worse -- occurred in the global economic system.

• OPINION

  Young Americans 'Fed Up' with country's economy

  News, Joseph Stiglitz, Published on 16/09/2015

  » At the end of every August, central bankers and financiers from around the world meet in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, for the US Federal Reserve's economic symposium. This year, the participants were greeted by a large group of mostly young people, including many African- and Hispanic-Americans.

• OPINION

  The great trans-Pacific free-trade charade

  Joseph Stiglitz, Published on 04/10/2015

  » As negotiators and ministers from the United States and 11 other Pacific Rim countries meet in Atlanta in an effort to finalise the details of the sweeping new Trans-Pacific Partnership, some sober analysis is warranted. The biggest regional trade and investment agreement in history is not what it seems.

• OPINION

  Solidarity key to Europe's future

  News, Joseph Stiglitz, Published on 09/06/2015

  » European Union leaders continue to play a game of brinkmanship with the Greek government. Greece has met its creditors' demands far more than halfway. Yet Germany and Greece's other creditors continue to demand that the country sign on to a programme that has proven to be a failure, and that few economists ever thought could, would, or should be implemented.

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