Stability with Growth: Macroeconomics, Liberalization and Development

Vice-président de la Banque mondiale, Joseph Stiglitz démissionna avec fracas de son poste en 2000. Auréolé d'un Prix Nobel d'économie reçu en 2001, il fait ici le procès des politiques prônées par le Fonds monétaire international. Pour faire face à la crise financière en Asie, pour faciliter la transition en Russie ou pour sauver des pays lourdement endettés, c'est toujours la même thérapeutique libérale qui est appliquée : privatisations, rigueur budgétaire et ouverture des marchés. Ces "solutions archaïques et inadaptées, sans tenir compte des effets qu'elles auraient sur les habitants des pays", sont imposées sans débat préalable, à partir d'une conception dogmatique de l'économie : la supériorité du marché et de la concurrence.  Avec pédagogie et sur un ton incisif, Stiglitz décrit avec moult anecdotes comment les grands argentiers ont contribué à façonner l'économie mondiale, et dénonce leurs décisions davantage fondées sur les intérêts des pays riches que sur ceux des pays "aidés". S'il ne remet pas en cause pour autant la mondialisation, "potentiellement capable d'enrichir chaque habitant de la planète en particulier les plus pauvres", il réclame une réforme en profondeur du fonctionnement des institutions internationales, pour mettre fin à ce "consensus de Washington" dont l'échec est patent. --Gery Dumoulin

La Grande Désillusion

A major reappraisal, by the Nobel-prizewinning economist, of the relationship between capitalism and freedomDespite its manifest failures, the narrative of neoliberalism retains its grip on the public mind and the policies of governments all over the world. By this narrative, less regulation and more 'animal spirits' capitalism produces not only greater prosperity, but more freedom for individuals in society - and is therefore morally better. But, in The Road to Freedom Stiglitz asks, whose freedom are we - should we be - thinking about? What happens when one person's freedom comes at the expense of another's? Should the freedoms of corporations be allowed to impinge upon those of individuals in the ways they now do?Taking on giants of neoliberalism such as Hayek and Friedman and examining how public opinion is formed, Stiglitz reclaims the language of freedom from the right to show that far from 'free' - unregulated - markets promoting growth and enterprise, they in fact reduce it, lessening economic opportunities for majorities and siphoning wealth from the many to the few - both individuals and countries. He shows how neoliberal economics and its implied moral system have impacted our legal and social freedoms in surprising ways, from property and intellectual rights, to education and social media. Stiglitz's eye, as always, is on how we might create the true human flourishing which should be the great aim of our economic and social system, and offers an alternative to that prevailing today. The Road to Freedom offers a powerful re-evaluation of democracy, economics and what constitutes a good society-and provides a roadmap of how we might achieve it.

The Road to Freedom - Economics and the Good Society

Comment en est-on arrivé à consacrer une monnaie qui était conçue pour rapprocher les peuples et amener la prospérité mais qui a fini par les diviser et plomber leur économie ? En mettant en évidence la mauvaise gouvernante de la Banque centrale européenne et en expliquant pourquoi l'austérité a condamné l'Europe à la stagnation sans fin, Joseph E. Stiglitz porte un diagnostic sévère sur la situation actuelle. Il explique pourquoi l'euro était vicié dès sa naissance et propose des scénarios concrets - en explorant notamment la piste d'un euro flexible - pour sortir de cette impasse, qui concerne près de 350 millions de personnes. Dans son premier grand ouvrage consacré à l'Union européenne, le célèbre économiste américain tire la sonnette d'alarme et exhorte les Européens à reprendre en main leur destin commun, en vue d'éviter une aggravation plus profonde encore de la crise actuelle.

L'Euro - Comment la monnaie unique menace l'avenir de l'Europe

Nobel Prize winner Joseph E. Stiglitz explains the current financial crisis—and the coming global economic order. The current global financial crisis carries a “made-in-America” label. In this forthright and incisive book, Nobel Laureate Joseph E. Stiglitz explains how America exported bad economics, bad policies, and bad behavior to the rest of the world, only to cobble together a haphazard and ineffective response when the markets finally seized up. Drawing on his academic expertise, his years spent shaping policy in the Clinton administration and at the World Bank, and his more recent role as head of a UN commission charged with reforming the global financial system, Stiglitz outlines a way forward building on ideas that he has championed his entire career: restoring the balance between markets and government, addressing the inequalities of the global financial system, and demanding more good ideas (and less ideology) from economists.   Freefall is an instant classic, combining an enthralling whodunit account of the current crisis with a bracing discussion of the broader economic issues at stake.

Le Triomphe de la cupidité

The 2009 Commission on the Measurement of Economic Performance and Social Progress ("Stiglitz-Sen-Fitoussi" Commission) concluded that we should move away from over-reliance on GDP when assessing a country's health, towards a broader dashboard of indicators that would reflect concerns such as the distribution of well-being and sustainability in all of its dimensions. This book includes contributions from members of the OECD-hosted High Level Expert Group on the Measurement of Economic Performance and Social Progress, the successor of the Stiglitz-Sen-Fitoussi Commission, and their co-authors on the latest research in this field. These contributions look at key issues raised by the 2009 Commission that deserved more attention, such as how to better include the environment and sustainability in our measurement system, and how to improve the measurement of different types of inequalities, of economic insecurity, of subjective well-being and of trust.

A companion volume Beyond GDP: Measuring What Counts for Economic and Social Performance presents an overview by the co-chairs of the High Level Expert Group, Joseph E. Stiglitz, Jean-Paul Fitoussi and Martine Durand of the progress accomplished since the 2009 report, of the work conducted by the Group over the past five years, and of what still needs to be done.

For Good Measure - Advancing Research on Well-being Metrics Beyond GDP

The fact that our global economy is broken may be widely accepted, but what precisely needs to be fixed has become the subject of enormous controversy. In 2008, the president of the United Nations General Assembly convened an international panel, chaired by Nobel Prize–winning economist Joseph Stiglitz and including twenty leading international experts on the international monetary system, to address this crucial issue.The Stiglitz Report, released by the committee in late 2009, sees the recent financial crisis as the latest and most damaging of several concurrent crises—of food, water, energy, and sustainability—that are tightly interrelated. The analysis and recommendations in the report cover the gamut from short-term mitigation to deep structural changes, from crisis response to reform of the global, economic, and financial architecture.The report establishes a bold agenda for policy change, that is sure to be the gold standard for understanding and contending with the international economy for many years to come. The Stiglitz Report is essential reading for anyone concerned about a secure and prosperous world.

Rapport Stiglitz

How can the poorer countries of the world be helped to help themselves through freer, fairer trade? In this challenging and controversial book Nobel prize-winning economist Joseph E. Stiglitz and his co-author Andrew Charlton address one of the key issues facing world leaders today. They put forward a radical and realistic new model for managing trading relationships between the richest and the poorest countries. Their approach is designed to open up markets in the interests of all and not just the most powerful economies, to ensure that trade promotes development, and to minimise the costs of adjustments. Beginning with a brief history of the World Trade Organisation and its agreements, the authors explore the issues and events which led to the failure of Cancun and the obstacles that face the successful completion of the Doha Round of negotiations. Finally they spell out the reforms and principles upon which a successful agreement must be based. Accessibly written and packed full of empirical evidence and analysis, this book is a must read for anyone interested in world trade and development.

Pour Un Commerce Mondial Plus Juste

A forceful argument against America's vicious circle of growing inequality by the Nobel Prize–winning economist.America currently has the most inequality, and the least equality of opportunity, among the advanced countries. While market forces play a role in this stark picture, politics has shaped those market forces. In this best-selling book, Nobel Prize–winning economist Joseph E. Stiglitz exposes the efforts of well-heeled interests to compound their wealth in ways that have stifled true, dynamic capitalism. Along the way he examines the effect of inequality on our economy, our democracy, and our system of justice. Stiglitz explains how inequality affects and is affected by every aspect of national policy, and with characteristic insight he offers a vision for a more just and prosperous future, supported by a concrete program to achieve that vision.

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