Description:
An International Bestseller
"Accessible, provocative, and highly readable." --Alan Cowell, New York Times
Brief description: Joseph E. Stiglitz is a Nobel Prize-winning economist and the best-selling author of The Great Divide, Rewriting the Rules of the American Economy, The Price of Inequality, Freefall: America, Free Markets, and the Sinking of the World Economy, and Globalization and Its Discontents. He is a columnist for the New York Times and Project Syndicate and has written for Vanity Fair, Politico, The Atlantic, and Harper's. He teaches at Columbia University and lives in New York City.
Review Quotes: [Stiglitz] is not a global pessimist, but a realist--and instead of placing him in a neat box labeled 'important contribution to the debate, ' we should listen to him more urgently.--Will Hutton "Guardian"