The Road to Freedom

Stiglitz is a rare combination of virtuoso economist, witty polemicist and public intellectual * New Statesman *The Road to Freedom … seeks to reclaim the concept of freedom for liberals and progressives [and] calls for the creation of a “progressive capitalism” that would look nothing like the neoliberal variant. – John Cassidy * New Yorker *Along with Krugman and Thomas Piketty, Stiglitz forms a triumvirate of leading economic critics of global capitalism, 21st-century-style. – Andrew Anthony * Guardian *

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.