Joe Stiglitz talk

In an earlier post I mentioned a BBC interview with Joseph Stiglitz'. Aziz in Eco740 has just written to share that Stiglitz will be speaking in NYC next week to promote his new book. Pasted below are excerpts of the announcement from a sponsoring group:
Making Globalization Work with Joseph Stiglitz

Thurs, Oct 5, 2006 | 7:00pm, at Strand Bookstore, 828 Broadway @ 12th Street, New York, NY

Joseph Stiglitz, one of the world's best known economists and author of the latest book, Making Globalization Work, Stiglitz reveals that economic globalization continues to outpace both the political structures and the moral sensitivity required to ensure a just and sustainable world. In clear language and compelling anecdotes, Stiglitz focuses on policies that work, offering fresh new thinking about the questions that shape the globalization debate, including a plan to restructure a global financial system made unstable by America's debt, ideas for how countries can grow without degrading the environment, a framework for free and fair global trade and much more.

Introducing Stiglitz will be Miles Rapoport, President of Demos. Joseph Stiglitz was Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers under President Clinton, former Chief Economist of the World Bank, winner of the 2001 Nobel Prize for his work on the economics of information and author of the best-selling book, Globalization and its Discontents.

Register online at www.demos.org/eventregistration or call (212) 633-1405 x533

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