The Great Divide by Joseph E. Stiglitz - ISBN: 9780141981222
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Inequality: A choice, not destiny. Understand it. Fight it. Change it.

The Great Divide

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    464 pages

  • Release Date

    27 June 2016

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Summary

The essential selection of the latest thought from a ‘towering genius of economics’ (Independent) and one of inequality’s most vocal critics.

Why has inequality increased in the Western world - and what can we do about it? In The Great Divide, Joseph E. Stiglitz argues that inequality is a choice - the cumulative result of unjust policies and misguided priorities.

In these essays, articles and reflections, Stiglitz fully exposes the inequality that is afflicting Ameri…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780141981222
ISBN-10:0141981229
Author:Joseph E. Stiglitz
Publisher:Penguin Books Ltd
Imprint:Penguin Books Ltd
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:464
Release Date:27 June 2016
Weight:330g
Dimensions:197mm x 130mm x 27mm
About The Author

Joseph E. Stiglitz

Joseph E. Stiglitz was Chairman of the President’s Council of Economic Advisers 1995-7 and Chief Economist at the World Bank 1997-2000. He is currently University Professor at Columbia University, teaching in the Department of Economics, the School of International and Public Affairs, and the Graduate School of Business. He is also the Chief Economist of the Roosevelt Institute and a Corresponding Fellow of the Royal Society and the British Academy. He won the Nobel Prize for Economics in 2001 and is the bestselling author of Globalization and Its Discontents, The Roaring Nineties, Making Globalization Work, Freefall, The Price of Inequality, The Great Divide and Power, People, and Profits, all published by Penguin.

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