A new, inequality-informed approach to pandemic preparedness is both warranted and practical. We explain why. Our article in @nejm.org With Matt Kavanagh, PhD, Monica Geingos, L.L.B., Winnie Byanyima, M.Sc., and Michael G. Marmot, M.B., B.S., M.P.H., Ph.D. www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....

The Inequality–Pandemic Cycle — Rethinking Preparedness | NEJM

Increasing pandemic frequency and increasing economic inequality are creating a self-reinforcing cycle. What’s needed is therefore a new, inequality-informed approach to pandemic preparedness.

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It was so nice to speak with @channel4news.bsky.social about the new Trump tariffs.

Channel 4 News@channel4news.bsky.social · 2w ago

‘He enjoys bullying other countries’ - US economist on Trump tariffs www.channel4.com/news/he-enjo...

Was delighted to speak with @ethosfera.bsky.social with my co-author, Maxim Ventura-Bolet, about our recent paper on AI and information distribution. Information is a public good. Who should finance it? Who pays when the ecosystem is polluted? Have a listen. open.spotify.com/episode/5cMY...

Joseph Stiglitz on AI and the economics of truth

Voces con Ethos · Episode

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Maxim Ventura-Bolet and I were extremely pleased to speak with @ethosfera.bsky.social about our recent paper on AI. The thrust: AI will create a better-informed society only with changes to the incentives governing the information economy. observatoriodemedios.org/joseph-stigl...

It was a great and productive meeting. Many thanks to @janetgornick.bsky.social for her important intervention, along with remarks by Imraan Valodia and Jose Antonio Ocampo. As Janet says, the IPI is taking shape! @icrict.bsky.social

Janet Gornick@janetgornick.bsky.social · 3w ago

I was pleased to speak - about data for inequality analyses - at yesterday's event organized to introduce the International Panel on Inequality to representatives from many Permanent Missions to the UN. The IPI is taking shape! @stone-lis.bsky.social @lisdata.bsky.social @morellisal.bsky.social

My dear friend and wonderful colleague Ned Phelps died in May. An immense loss to all who knew and loved him, and to the world.

La pauvreté est un choix politique. Tout commence par nos systèmes fiscaux. Dans @lemonde.fr et @theguardian.com, @josephestiglitz.bsky.social, @jayatighosh.bsky.social et @thomaspiketty.bsky.social, aux côtés de près de 400 personnalités, signent une feuille de route pour l’éradiquer.

Poverty is a policy choice that starts with how we design our tax systems. In @theguardian.com, #ICRICT co-chairs @josephestiglitz.bsky.social & @jayatighosh.bsky.social and commissioner @thomaspiketty.bsky.social join 350+ signatories: rewrite the rules that manufacture poverty. #TaxJustice

Growth has failed to eradicate poverty or to promote wellbeing. Poverty is not inevitable. It is manufactured. Our op-ed with @deschuttero.bsky.social @jayatighosh.bsky.social @thomaspiketty.bsky.social @kateraworth.bsky.social @jasonhickel.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

We economists have done the maths: ‘growth’ is a doomed strategy – there is a better way | Olivier De Schutter and others

Our roadmap has been shaped by experts across the world. We call on political leaders at all levels to use it, says Olivier De Schutter and others

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I look forward to reading this important book by @johnjayeconomics.bsky.social professor @jwmason.bsky.social and @ipdcolumbia.bsky.social senior researcher and Azim Premji University professor @arjunjayadev.bsky.social press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

Against Money

A powerful deconstruction of humanity’s most influential invention, from the acclaimed economists J. W. Mason and Arjun Jayadev.Money is everywhere in our daily lives. It lurks in the swipe of a card ...

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It was a true pleasure to be on the panel with @noiweala.bsky.social to talk about progressive trade policy, with great thanks to @fesonline.bsky.social

Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala@noiweala.bsky.social · 3mo ago

At a Panel with Nobel Economics Laureate Prof. @josephestiglitz.bsky.social discussing his new work on progressive trade policy. (1/3)

Please join us if you can. Should be a very interesting conversation @columbiauniversity.bsky.social with @adamtooze.bsky.social and Lee C. Bollinger about the global university, past and future. I'll round out the trio. April 28, 5:30 pm. Link to register: events.columbia.edu/cal/event/ev...

The Global University? Looking Back, Looking Forward

<p>Rising geopolitical tension and the nationalist turn of American policy have called into question the premise of &ldquo;the global.&rdquo; In an era of conflict, mutual suspicion, and rising border...

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I greatly look forward to it!

Freedom Cartoonists@freedomcartoonists.bsky.social · 4mo ago

In less than two weeks, you are going to know the laureate (or laureates?) of our award! In the meantime, let us introduce @josephestiglitz.bsky.social, the special guest attending our award ceremony! 👉 freedomcartoonists.com

Thanks to the Stanford Digital Economy Lab for posting this video Maxim Ventura-Bolet and I made to accompany our paper on Information in the age of AI published in The Digitalist Papers youtu.be/UpMjXOKd5Ik

Innovation and misinformation in the AI era | Joseph Stiglitz and Màxim Ventura-Bolet

YouTube video by Stanford Digital Economy Lab

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Today in @theguardian.com, @gabrielzucman.bsky.social, @mayor.nyc.gov and I write on Tax Day about the hazards of inequality, how the rich are not paying their share of taxes and why that is a problem locally, nationally and globally www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Tax Day is a reminder of America’s unequal tax system. But we can fix it | Zohran Mamdani, Gabriel Zucman and Joseph Stiglitz

There is no justification for a regressive system in which the super-rich contribute less than the rest of us

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If anyone is interested in watching the Tax the Rich event with @gabrielzucman.bsky.social and @mayor.nyc.gov and me, here is the link: www.youtube.com/watch?v=hPxp...

Mayor Mamdani Holds Tax Day Forum with Economists Gabriel Zucman and Joseph Stiglitz

YouTube video by NYC Mayor's Office

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So glad you and others from the Stone Center could be there, @janetgornick.bsky.social

Janet Gornick@janetgornick.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Our Stone Center was in the house. The event was an excellent balance of smart research and smart politics. It's not easy to feel hopeful these days; this was an occasion. Our Mayor - so impressive! @stone-lis.bsky.social @gabrielzucman.bsky.social @josephestiglitz.bsky.social @pkrugman.bsky.social

It was a wonderful event at @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social today with an enthusiastic and packed house to hear @gabrielzucman.bsky.social, @mayor.nyc.gov and I talk about the absolute necessity for global societies to tax the ultra rich. It's not radical to think they should pay their fair share too

You may be interested in this inequality event with @gabrielzucman.bsky.social and @mayor.nyc.gov. April 15 at 9:45 a.m. EDT. Link to livestream below. As our G20 inequality report said, the top 1% have seen their average wealth increase by $1.3m since 2000 while the bottom 50% saw it rise by $585.

ICRICT@icrict.bsky.social · 4mo ago

🚨Confronting Global Inequality #NYC @mayor.nyc.gov Zohran Mamdani sits down with #ICRICT's @josephestiglitz.bsky.social & @gabrielzucman.bsky.social to confront global inequality head-on. 🗓️Wednesday, April 15 ⏰9.45 AM ET 📺 Watch live: youtube.com/nycmayorsoff... #TaxTheSuperRich

I was honored to give the virtual keynote for the Cambridge Disinformation Summit last week. Alan Jagolinzer of the Cambridge Judge Business School, who chaired the summit, said, "I see disinformation as preparing the landscape for corruption." www.youtube.com/watch?v=D6yI...

Prof. Joseph Stiglitz discusses the impact of AI and digital platforms on the information ecosystem

YouTube video by Cambridge Disinformation Summit

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I really appreciate @economist.com inviting me to write about Keynes for their By Invitation, America at 250 column. They are always great to work with www.economist.com/by-invitatio...

John Maynard Keynes saved capitalism from itself

But America’s past economic success is no guarantee of its future, writes Joseph Stiglitz

economist.com

Thank you, Emily Russell, for your interview on the occasion of the paperback release of my book, The Road to Freedom: Economics and the Good Society, out today in @barrons.com www.barrons.com/articles/eco...

Economic Warnings From Nobel Laureate Joseph Stiglitz

The economist has long been worried about deindustrialization. Now he is also concerned about the impacts from tariffs, the Iran war, and AI.

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Thank you!

Mark Welch@markwelch.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Today's reading distraction: "The Price of Inequality: How Today's Divided Society Endangers Our Future" (2012) by Joseph E. Stiglitz @josephestiglitz.bsky.social amzn.to/4vbyemP

Thank you, @nber.org, for publishing this working paper with @akorinek.bsky.social www.nber.org/papers/w34994

Steering Technological Progress

Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an...

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So happy for the publication of The Future of Work in Developing Countries, co-edited with @arjunjayadev.bsky.social and and Akbar Noman, and thank you to @columbiaup.bsky.social for being our terrific publisher cup.columbia.edu/book/the-fut...

The Future of Work in Developing Countries | Columbia University Press

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 fo... | CUP

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200 figuras, @josephestiglitz.bsky.social @jayatighosh.bsky.social @thomaspiketty.bsky.social José A. Ocampo, @martinguzman.bsky.social de #ICRICT, piden a Gustavo Petro retirarse del injusto sistema de arbitraje de inversión que beneficia a empresas sobre estados En @elpais.com shorturl.at/jxWTT

Tak, Politiken, for at have udgivet min debatartikel. (I don't speak Danish, so I hope the translation is ok.) politiken.dk/debat/debati...

Thank you, @afp.com and @france24.com, for covering the talks for what will be the International Panel on Inequality. It's an exciting moment www.france24.com/en/live-news...

Talks towards international panel to tackle 'inequality emergency' begin at UN

Talks towards creating a new international panel to address extreme wealth disparities, modelled on the United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), opened in Geneva on Monday.

france24.com

Thrilled that @fortune.com ran an excerpt of my new foreword in the new paperback release of my book, The Road to Freedom: Economics and the Good Society fortune.com/2026/03/17/s...

Nobel economist Joseph Stiglitz says Trump replaced 'The rule of law with a question: How much will you give me?' | Fortune

Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz says America replaced the rule of law with a medieval bazaar, and explains what it will cost us

fortune.com

Australia is leading the discussions on how to deal with AI deep fakes used in online fraud. An opinion piece with Anya Shiffrin in The Point thepoint.com.au/opinions/260...

Why Meta should shoulder the burden of stopping deep fake adverts

AI deepfakes used in online fraud are a global problem. In Australia, Hong Kong, Taiwan, the United States, the EU, and Southeast Asia, scammers often use deepfake images of public figures to trick pe...

thepoint.com.au