Joseph Stiglitz Refutes Adam Smith's "Invisible Hand"

So, Joseph Stiglitz, Nobel Laureate for Economics and one of my favourite economists, decided to give us some insight about the rule established so many years ago by none other than one of the grandfathers of modern economics, Adam Smith. He makes some good points, the lack of efficient regulations is one of the key factors of the reduction of the world economy - Some call it crisis. I think

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Joseph E. Stiglitz on capitalist fools About Us: vanityfair.com

Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson and former Federal Reserve Board chairman Alan Greenspan bookend two decades of economic missteps. Photo illustration by Darrow. There will come a moment when the most urgent threats posed by the credit crisis have eased and the larger task before us will be to chart a direction for the economic steps ahead. This will be a

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Making Globalization Work

This is a lecture about Globalization's ups and downs held at the World Affairs Council by Joseph E. Stiglitz (no need to tell you who he is, right?)

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