Development
Helping Infant Economies Grow: Foundations of Trade Policies for Developing Countries (with Bruce Greenwald), The American Economic Review (2006)
Growth, Initial Conditions, Law andSpeed of Privatization in Transition Countries: 11 Years Later (with Sergio Godoy), NBER Working Paper Series, #11992 (2006)
This paper examines alternative hypotheses concerning the determinants of success in the transition from Communism...
Global Climate Change
A New Agenda for Global Warming, The Economists' Voice (2006)
Joseph E. Stiglitz presents his plan for getting the United States and the Developing World...
Globalization, International Trade and Markets
Economic Crisis or Global Malaise in 2006?, The Economists' Voice (2006)
Joseph Stiglitz argues that in certain respects the economy is precarious and a crisis is...
Helping Infant Economies Grow: Foundations of Trade Policies for Developing Countries (with Bruce Greenwald), The American Economic Review (2006)
Growth, Initial Conditions, Law andSpeed of Privatization in Transition Countries: 11 Years Later (with Sergio Godoy), NBER Working Paper Series, #11992 (2006)
This paper examines alternative hypotheses concerning the determinants of success in the transition from Communism...
Iraq
The High Cost of The Iraq War, The Economists' Voice (2006)
Joseph E. Stiglitz calculates that the full cost of the Iraq War may reach $2...
Reply: Transfers vs. Economic Costs in the Iraq War, The Economists' Voice (2006)
Transfers and economic costs are indeed different in the war in Iraq, and transfers may...
The Economic Costs of the Iraq War (with Linda Bilmes), NBER Working Paper Series (2006)
This paper attempts to provide a more complete reckoning of the costs of the Iraq...
Public Finance
Securing Social Security for the Future, The Economists' Voice (2006)
The funding troubles of Social Security have been greatly exaggerated in an effort to push...
The Parties' Flip-Flops on Deficit Spending: Economics or Politics?, The Economists' Voice (2004)
Not long ago, Republicans were trying to pass a balanced budget amendment to the constitution....