With history and the extraordinary parallels between Biden and FDR as his guide, the veteran political analyst diagnoses what's at stake for America in 2022 and beyondJoe Biden has found his way back to Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal. After four decades of diminishing prospects for ordinary people, the public likes what Biden is offering. Yet American democracy is in dire peril as Republicans, increasingly the national minority, try to destroy democracy in order to c...

With history and the extraordinary parallels between Biden and FDR as his guide, the veteran political analyst diagnoses what’s at stake for America in 2022 and beyondJoe Biden has found his way back to Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal. After four decades of diminishing prospects for ordinary people, the public likes what Biden is offering. Yet American democracy is in dire peril as Republicans, increasingly the national minority, try to destroy democracy in order to ...

A bold agenda for a better way to assess societal well-being, by three of the world's leading economists and statisticians"If we want to put people first, we have to know what matters to them, what improves their well-being, and how we can supply more of whatever that is."—Joseph E. StiglitzIn 2009, a group of economists led by Nobel laureate Joseph E. Stiglitz, French economist Jean-Paul Fitoussi, and Nobel laureate ...

Today's leading economists weigh in with a new "dashboard" of metrics for measuring our economic and social health"What we measure affects what we do. If we focus only on material well-being—on, say, the production of goods, rather than on health, education, and the environment—we become distorted in the same way that these measures are distorted."—Joseph E. StiglitzA consensus has emerged among key experts that our conventional econ...

Today's leading economists weigh in with a new "dashboard" of metrics for measuring our economic and social health"What we measure affects what we do. If we focus only on material well-being—on, say, the production of goods, rather than on health, education, and the environment—we become distorted in the same way that these measures are distorted."—Joseph E. StiglitzA consensus has emerged among key experts that our conventional econ...

This is the third volume in a new, definitive, six-volume edition of the works of Joseph Stiglitz, one of today's most distinguished and controversial economists. Stiglitz was awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics in 2001 for his work on asymmetric information and is widely acknowledged as one of the pioneers in the field of modern information economics and more generally for his contributions to microeconomics. Volume III contains a selection of Joseph E. Stiglitz's work on microeconomics....

In February of 2008, amid the looming global financial crisis, President Nicolas Sarkozy of France asked Nobel Prize-winning economists Joseph Stiglitz and Amartya Sen, along with the distinguished French economist Jean Paul Fitoussi, to establish a commission of leading economists to study whether Gross Domestic Product (GDP)—the most widely used measure of economic activity—is a reliable indicator of economic and social progress. The Commission was given the further task of laying out an...

"The first essential text of a new and remarkably dynamic era of social activism that has already brought profound change to the world." —Bob HerbertSomething was in the air in 2011, as protest movements swept through the world—from the Arab Spring, to Spain's Indignados, to the Occupy Wall Street movement that spread from Zuccotti Park in downtown Manhattan across the United States in the wake of the global financial collapse.This volume collects firsthand...

"A provocative new study . . . [which] amounts to a treatise on the inadequacy of GDP growth as an indication of overall economic health." — The New York TimesNobel Prize–Winning AuthorsIn February of 2008, amid the looming global financial crisis, President Nicolas Sarkozy of France asked Nobel Prize–winning economists Joseph Stiglitz and Amartya Sen, along with the distinguished French economist Jean Paul Fitouss...

From the Nobel Prize–winning economist and a UN commission of financial experts: A report on the causes of and necessary remedies for the Great Recession.The fact that our global economy is broken may be widely accepted, but what precisely needs to be fixed has become the subject of enormous controversy. In 2008, the president of the United Nations General Assembly convened an international panel, chaired by Nobel Prize–winning economist Joseph Stiglitz and includi...

A bold agenda for a better way to assess societal well-being, by three of the world's leading economists and statisticians"If we want to put people first, we have to know what matters to them, what improves their well-being, and how we can supply more of whatever that is."—Joseph E. StiglitzIn 2009, a group of economists led by Nobel laureate Joseph E. Stiglitz, French economist Jean-Paul Fitoussi, and Nobel laureate...

Essays on the dangers of the wealth and income gap, collected by the New York Times–bestselling author of It's Even Worse Than You Think.This collection includes writings by a wide range of voices—including Adam Smith, Elizabeth Warren, Barbara Ehrenreich, Joseph E. Stiglitz, Studs Terkel, Paul Krugman, Barack Obama, and David Cay Johnston—illuminating the reality of economic inequality in America, where in spite of the fury that followed the 2008...