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  • Measuring What Counts

    The Global Movement for Well-Being

    by Joseph E. Stiglitz ...
    A bold agenda for a better way to assess societal well-being, by three of the world's leading economists and statisticians"If we want to put people first, we have to know what matters to them, what improves their well-being, and how we can supply more of whatever that is."—Joseph E. StiglitzIn 2009, a group of economists led by Nobel laureate Joseph E. Stiglitz, French economist Jean-Paul Fitoussi ... Read more

    $19.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Mismeasuring Our Lives

    Why GDP Doesn't Add Up

    by Joseph E. Stiglitz, Amartya Sen, Jean-Paul Fitoussi ...
    "A provocative new study . . . [which] amounts to a treatise on the inadequacy of GDP growth as an indication of overall economic health." — The New York TimesNobel Prize–Winning AuthorsIn February of 2008, amid the looming global financial crisis, President Nicolas Sarkozy of France asked Nobel Prize–winning economists Joseph Stiglitz and Amartya Sen, along with the distinguished French economist ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Divided

    The Perils of Our Growing Inequality

    by Adam Smith, Elizabeth Warren, Barbara Ehrenreich, Joseph E. Stiglitz, Paul Krugman, Barack Obama ...
    Essays on the dangers of the wealth and income gap, collected by the New York Times–bestselling author of It's Even Worse Than You Think.This collection includes writings by a wide range of voices—including Adam Smith, Elizabeth Warren, Barbara Ehrenreich, Joseph E. Stiglitz, Studs Terkel, Paul Krugman, Barack Obama, and David Cay Johnston—illuminating the reality of economic inequality in America ... Read more

    $19.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • For Good Measure

    An Agenda for Moving Beyond GDP

    Edited by Joseph E. Stiglitz ...
    Today's leading economists weigh in with a new "dashboard" of metrics for measuring our economic and social health"What we measure affects what we do. If we focus only on material well-being—on, say, the production of goods, rather than on health, education, and the environment—we become distorted in the same way that these measures are distorted."—Joseph E. StiglitzA consensus has emerged among ... Read more

    $41.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • For Good Measure

    An Agenda for Moving Beyond GDP

    Edited by Joseph E. Stiglitz, Jean-Paul Fitoussi, Martine Durand ...
    Today's leading economists weigh in with a new "dashboard" of metrics for measuring our economic and social health"What we measure affects what we do. If we focus only on material well-being—on, say, the production of goods, rather than on health, education, and the environment—we become distorted in the same way that these measures are distorted."—Joseph E. StiglitzA consensus has emerged among ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Future of Work in Developing Countries

    Edited by Akbar Noman, Joseph E. Stiglitz, Arjun Jayadev ...
    Series series Initiative for Policy Dialogue at Columbia: Challenges in Development and Globalization
    One of the most pressing issues in development today is the employment challenge in low- and middle-income countries. As more young people enter the labor force—and as structural transformation unfolds amid deindustrialization, technological disruption, and global competition—the question of how to create sufficient decent jobs has become central to the economic future of the Global South. ... Read more

    $78.39 CAD

  • Going Big

    FDR's Legacy, Biden's New Deal, and the Struggle to Save Democracy

    by Robert Kuttner ...
    With history and the extraordinary parallels between Biden and FDR as his guide, the veteran political analyst diagnoses what's at stake for America in 2022 and beyondJoe Biden has found his way back to Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal. After four decades of diminishing prospects for ordinary people, the public likes what Biden is offering. Yet American democracy is in dire peril as Republicans, ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Audiobook

    The Origins of Inequality

    by Joseph E. Stiglitz ...
    Narrated by Sean Pratt ...

    Unabridged

    34 hours 2 min

    Joseph E. Stiglitz has had a remarkable career. He is a brilliant academic, capped by sharing the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics and the Nobel Peace Prize, and honorary degrees from Harvard, Cambridge, Oxford and more than fifty other universities, and elected not only to the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Letters but the Royal Society and the British Academy; ... Read more

    $67.00 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Welfare State Revisited

    Edited by José Antonio Ocampo, Joseph E. Stiglitz ...
    Series series Initiative for Policy Dialogue at Columbia: Challenges in Development and Globalization
    The welfare state has been under attack for decades, but now more than ever there is a need for strong social protection systems—the best tools we have to combat inequality, support social justice, and even improve economic performance. In this book, José Antonio Ocampo and Joseph E. Stiglitz bring together distinguished contributors to examine the global variations of social programs and make the ... Read more

    $87.99 CAD

  • The Right to Know

    Transparency for an Open World

    Edited by Ann Florini ...
    Series series Initiative for Policy Dialogue at Columbia: Challenges in Development and Globalization
    The Right to Know is a timely and compelling consideration of a vital question: What information should governments and other powerful organizations disclose? Excessive secrecy corrodes democracy, facilitates corruption, and undermines good public policymaking, but keeping a lid on military strategies, personal data, and trade secrets is crucial to the protection of the public interest.Over the ... Read more

    $40.79 CAD

  • The Quest for Security

    Protection Without Protectionism and the Challenge of Global Governance

    Edited by Joseph E. Stiglitz, Mary Kaldor ...
    The essays in this collection boldly confront the quest for security arising from the social, economic, environmental, and political crises and transformations of our century. Joseph E. Stiglitz and Mary Kaldor begin with an expansive, balanced analysis of the global landscape and the factors contributing to the growth of insecurity. Whereas earlier studies have touched on how globalization has ... Read more

    $41.59 CAD

  • The Great Polarization

    How Ideas, Power, and Policies Drive Inequality

    Edited by Rudiger von Arnim, Joseph E. Stiglitz ...
    Series series Initiative for Policy Dialogue at Columbia: Challenges in Development and Globalization
    Inequality of income and wealth has skyrocketed since the 1970s. As the super-rich have grasped the vast majority of the gains from economic growth, labor’s share of income has declined. The middle class has stagnated, and those at the bottom have become even worse off. Persistent structural discrimination on the basis of race and gender exacerbates these economic disparities.The Great ... Read more

    $72.79 CAD