Business & Economics, Commercial Policy

Globalization and Its Discontents

Name: Globalization and Its Discontents
Author: Joseph E. Stiglitz
ISBN: 9780393051247

by Joseph E. Stiglitz, Stiglitz, Joseph

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Synopsis

This powerful, unsettling book gives us a rare glimpse behind the closed doors of global financial institutions by the winner of the 2001 Nobel Prize in Economics.

James K. Galbraith

This book is everyone's guide to the misgovernment of globalization. Stiglitz explains it here in plain and compelling language.

About the Author, Joseph E. Stiglitz

Winner of the 2001 Nobel Memorial Prize for Economics, Joseph E. Stiglitz is the author of Making Globalization Work; Globalization and Its Discontents; and, with Linda Bilmes, The Three Trillion Dollar War. He was chairman of President Clinton's Council of Economic Advisers and served as senior vice president and chief economist at the World Bank. He teaches at Columbia University and lives in New York City.