by Joseph E. Stiglitz · Penguin · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780141010380
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«Globalization and Its Discontents» is Joseph E. Stiglitz's critical essay on globalization, published by Penguin in paperback (288 pages).
Nobel laureate Joseph E. Stiglitz examines globalization from his experience as chief economist of the World Bank. He criticizes the policies of the IMF and WTO toward developing countries and the shock therapy that impoverished millions in Russia and East Asia, and advocates for a fairer globalization if the power imbalance is corrected.
The work originally appeared in 2002; this Penguin edition is from 2003 and has text in English. Stiglitz was chief economist of the World Bank between 1997 and 2000.
For readers interested in international economics, development policies, and critical debate on globalization.
Joseph Eugene Stiglitz is an American New Keynesian economist, a public policy analyst, political activist, and a professor at Columbia University. He is a recipient of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences (2001) and the John Bates Clark Medal (1979). He is a former senior vice president and chief economist of the World Bank. He is also a former member and chairman of the U.S. Council of Economic Advisers. He is known for his support for the Georgism public finance theory and for his critical view of the management of globalization, of laissez-faire economists, and of international institutions such as the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank.
