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Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext Why isn't globalization benefiting as many people as it should? Drawing on real-life examples! Stiglitz shows us that things can change and that an optimistic world can exist where globalization really works. In MAKING GLOBALIZATION WORK he examines how change has occurred rapidly over the past four years! proposing solutions and looking to the future. Zusammenfassung Offers real, concrete ways to deal with third world debt, make trade fair and tackle global warming. In this title, the author changed the views of the public and world leaders alike by showing why globalization doesn't work for the world's poor.
