Professor Joseph Stiglitz was interviewed in an extensive profile piece for The Guardian where he discussed tax cuts and the economic impacts of the Trump presidency.
On Earth Day 2018, Professor Jeffrey Sachs published an op-ed arguing in favor of climate change action in the New York Daily News.
This course, taught by Professor Rajiv Vohra, will explore recent developments that incorporate farsighted behavior in coalitional games, which are designed to model rational behavior when groups have the ability to make binding agreements.
Most of economics is pretty healthy as a discipline. But one branch has really been thrown for a loop — business cycle theory. The financial crisis of 2008 and Great Recession taught macroeconomists that they didn’t really understand the sources of recessions. The financial crisis of 2008 and Great Recession
Deficits and surpluses indicate the relationship between savings and investment and have nothing to do with trade policy, a Columbia University economist said Friday, criticizing the United States' approach to resolve trade imbalance. At a symposium on multilateral trade and globalization at the United Nations headquarters, Jeffery Sachs said neither
Economist Joseph Stiglitz was quoted in a piece for Xinhua News on how unilateral US tariffs against China undermine international trade.
Ask Nobel prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz for his thoughts on the Turnbull government’s arguments that cutting the company tax will lead to strong investment and higher wages, and he doesn’t mince words: “I don’t think there’s any validity in it.The Columbia University professor and former chief economist at the World
"My Columbia University colleague Dr. James Hansen, for 30 years NASA's leading climate scientist, warns us that even with warming well below 2-degree C, human-induced warming could lead to the disintegration of parts of the ice sheets of Antarctica and Greenland, causing the sea level to rise by as much
A meaningful trade agreement between the U.S. and China is unlikely as long as President Donald Trump fails to recognize China’s right to develop its economy, according to Joseph Stiglitz, the Nobel Prize-winning Columbia University economist. While a face-saving deal could arise that allows Trump to claim a victory for
In the World Happiness Report, there's a chapter devoted to the fall in American happiness - economist Jeffrey D. Sachs suggest that there are three main variables behind it. "America's subjective well-being is being systematically undermined by three interrelated epidemic diseases, notably obesity, substance abuse (especially opioid addiction), and depression)."
