"A Fair Deal for the World"

Book review

By: Joseph E. Stiglitz

Date: May 23, 2002

Source: Stiglitz, Joseph E. "A Fair Deal for the World." New York Review of Books 49, no. 9, May 23, 2002.

About the Author: Joseph E. Stiglitz, an economist at Columbia University, received the 2001 Nobel Prize in Economics. He has served as chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers and vice president of the World Bank. He is the author of Globalization and Its Discontents (2002).

Introduction

In his review of internationally known investor and philanthropist George Soros' On Globalization, economist Joseph Stiglitz discusses the complexities of the debate over globalization. Economists have long argued that the modern economic ideas and institutions of capitalism have expanded all over the world. In 1944, at the end of World War II (1939–1945), the victorious Allied powers...

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