Description: This insider's account of global economic policy will be hailed by those seeking to understand why globalization has engendered the hostility of protesters in Seattle and Genoa.
Brief description: 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.
Review Quotes: Accessible, provocative and highly readable. ... Brings an insider's insights into the crises of the 1990s and beyond, from East Asia to Russia and on to Argentina.-- "New York Times"