The Road to Freedom: Economics and the Good Society
Join us for an exclusive evening with Nobel Prize-winning economist听Joesph Stiglitz听as he discusses his latest book,听The Road to Freedom: Economics and the Good Society. In this thought-provoking work, Stiglitz challenges conventional wisdom about markets, democracy, and the true meaning of freedom to argue that unregulated markets lead to inequality, instability, and the erosion of democratic values.听
Joesph Stiglitz will be joined in conversation with Christopher Ragan, Founding Director of the Max Bell School of Public Policy.
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Speaker Bio
Joseph E. Stiglitz听is an American economist and a professor at听Columbia University. He is also the co-chair of the High-Level Expert Group on the Measurement of Economic Performance and Social Progress at the听OECD, and the Chief Economist of the听Roosevelt Institute. Stiglitz was awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 2001 and the John Bates Clark Medal in 1979. He is a former senior vice president and chief economist of the World Bank and a former chair of the U.S. Council of Economic Advisers.
In 2000, Stiglitz founded the听Initiative for Policy Dialogue, a think tank on international development based at Columbia University. In 2011 Stiglitz was named by Time magazine as听one of the 100 most influential people in the world. Known for his pioneering work on asymmetric information, Stiglitz's research focuses on income distribution, climate change, corporate governance, public policy, macroeconomics and globalization. He is the author of numerous books including, most recently,听People, Power, and Profits, Rewriting the Rules of the European Economy, and听Globalization and Its Discontents Revisited.
