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KyiMayKaung (Free subscription) | yesterday
Union Station, DC -- The Long View -- photo and blog comment copyright Kyi May Kaung. Stiglitz's credentials and wish to help are impeccable. In fact, it was I who first suggested behind the scenes in 2004 that he be invited to a closed door meeting in DC. However, it is unlikely that he or anyone can get the SPDC to trim its budget. The junta is committed to keeping itself in power which means...
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The Business Insider (Free subscription) | 12/01/2009
How could three prominent economists have been so dumb-foundingly wrong about the systemic risk of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac? Today’s Wall Street Journal discusses a 2002 paper declaring that "on the basis of historical experience, the risk to the government from a potential default on GSE debt is effectively zero." It’s authors were Jonathan Orzag, Peter Orszag and Joseph...
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Truth Out (Free subscription) | 11/30/2009
The list of high-profile foreigners heading to Burma to engage and advise the country’s military regime is about to get longer. The latest due to join that flow is Nobel economics laureate Joseph Stiglitz. The former chief economist of the World Bank will fly into Burma, or Myanmar as it is also known, on Dec. 14 for a mission aimed to examine and improve the South-east Asian nation’s...
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Delta Farm Press RSS Feed (Free subscription) | yesterday
The response by both the Bush and Obama administrations to the economic crisis “has been flawed,” says Nobel laureate and Columbia University Professor Joseph Stiglitz.
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Delta Farm Press RSS Feed (Free subscription) | 12/02/2009
In the last economic crisis, a little over a decade ago, the U.S. “exported our way out of it,” says Columbia University Professor Joseph Stiglitz, who was awarded the 2001 Nobel Prize in economics.
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LATICONOMICS (Free subscription) | 12/01/2009
Systemic Risk and Fannie Mae The education of Joe Stiglitz and Peter Orszag. As Congress lumbers toward creating a systemic-risk regulator, it's worth a look back—to 2002, when an economist named Stiglitz and a duo named Orszag wrote a paper with the droll title, "Implications of the New Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac Risk-Based Capital Standard." We won't keep you in suspense....
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Who Hijacked Our Country (Free subscription) | 12/01/2009
... People taking part in the forum include: Google CEO Eric Schmidt, Disney CEO Bob Iger, economists Joseph Stiglitz and Paul Krugman and various labor leaders. Let’s hope he listens to Paul Krugman in particular. His November 29th column has some good advice for Obama. He says Obama needs to create an “emergency jobs program.” Instead of passing another gargantuan...
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Geary Behaviour Centre (Free subscription) | 11/30/2009
... of the business community, attendees will include several economists, including Nobel laureates Joseph Stiglitz and Paul Krugman, and Jeffrey Sachs of Columbia University.
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AFL-CIO Weblog (Free subscription) | 11/30/2009
... and community organizations, including AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka and Nobel laureates Joseph Stiglitz and Paul Krugman. At the summit, Trumka will discuss the five-point plan proposed by the AFL-CIO and our allies to create jobs and boost the economy, which involves: Extending the lifeline for jobless workers through unemployment insurance, food aid and health care assistance....
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Talking Biz News (Free subscription) | 12/01/2009
... passed away last week in New York at the too young age of 52. “Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz called Pittman one of the great financial journalists of our time. He did a tremendous job explaining and laying out the layering of subprime. But Pittman’s final legacy is yet to be written. “Just three months ago, Pittman and Bloomberg News won a key legal victory in the...
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Mostly Economics (Free subscription) | 12/01/2009
... columnists. 22. Robert Shiller – for warning us — over and over — about dangerous bubbles 25. Joseph Stiglitz – for relentlessly questioning economic dogma. 29. Paul Krugman - for proving that a Nobel Prize winner can also be a prolific pundit and unerringly correct doomsayer. 35. Nicholas Stern- for figuring out the costs of climate change and the politics of a solution. 36. Paul...
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Hot Air (Free subscription) | 11/29/2009
Al Gore, apparently not content with the job of cleaning the Climategate mess, is now opining on GDP accounting. Surely a broader accounting of economic activity will enhance economic policy and decision-making. We commend the work of Professor Joseph Stiglitz and the Commission on the Measurement of Economic Performance and Social ...
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Instapundit.com (Free subscription) | 11/30/2009
... even if you accept the estimated cumulative cost of $3.2 trillion published by Columbia economist Joseph Stiglitz in February 2008). Like World War II, only with ACORN instead of the Manhattan Project. What could go wrong? Plus, Paul Krugman re-spins the deficit. But where Ferguson worries about a decline in U.S. military power as a result, I think some people in the Administration...
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Trinidad Express (Free subscription) | 11/29/2009
Prof Joseph Stiglitz, Nobel Prize Winner 2001, came to UWI and delivered a brilliant lecture on the measurement or rather the mismeasurement of economic growth.
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War On You (Free subscription) | 11/30/2009
... of the U.S. mortgage industry. “He was one of the great financial journalists of our time,” said Joseph Stiglitz , a professor at Columbia University in New York and the winner of the 2001 Nobel Prize for economics. “His death is shocking.” Pittman’s fight to make the Fed more accountable resulted in an Aug. 24 victory in Manhattan Federal Court affirming the public’s right to know...
