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...Gavin Fridell Abstract Since being forced to resign his high-ranking post at the World Bank in 2000 for publicly dissenting from neoliberal ideas, Joseph Stiglitz has become a global policy celebrity, celebrated as the “Rebel Within.” While much has been said about his neo-Keynesian policy...

... about the economy, he said that, although he knew his base wanted him to appoint reform-minded figures like Joseph Stiglitz and Paul Krugman as his advisors, he would instead rely on "ruthless pragmatists."8 These ruthless pragmatists proved to be the very same figures, associated with Citibank...

..., and curtailment of regulations on capital (especially its mobility). There are exceptions. The recent works of Dani Rodrik, Joseph Stiglitz, and Robert Reich have established the importance of the field's (for now, limited) examinations of the public purpose of political economy, emphasizing in particular those...

... a common driver: massive concentrations of economic power being deployed for political gain so to accrue more economic power. Nobel-prize winning economist Joseph Stiglitz captured this dynamic elegantly in an influential Vanity Fair article-"Of the 10/0, by the la/a, for the la/a"-published in May 2011...

... Stiglitz has clearly elucidated these consequences when income and wealth are so tightly concentrated in the hands of the top 1%. "Of all the costs imposed on our society by the top 1 percent," he observed, "the greatest is this: the erosion of our sense of identity, in which fair play, equality...

.... For the perspective that it is, see Moriarty, "Against the Asymmetry of Desert' For the perspective that it is not, see Amartya Sen, "Just Deserts;' The New York Review of Books 29:3 (1982); Joseph Stiglitz, "The Price of Inequality;' (New York, NY: W. W. Norton & Company, 2012). 29As Hobbes famously said, without...

..., httpwww.undp.org/hdr2003/; Joseph Stiglitz, Globalization and its Discontents (London: Penguin Books, 2002); Jan Nederveen Pieterse, "Global Inequality: Bringing Politics Back In," Third World Quarterly 23:6 (2002), pp.1023-1046; Nancy Birdsall, "Life is Unfair: Inequality in the World," Foreign Policy 111 (1998...

... of markets and states as separate and antithetical social spheres, where the history of the capitalist economy is understood as periods in which either one or the other dominates. 14 Such a perspective is evident, for example, in commentaries on neoliberalism and the crisis by Joseph Stiglitz. He argues...

... to salvage its remaining institutions. CW: I disagree. I think Joseph Stiglitz makes that case in Freefall,3 that he didn't have to accept the big banks' "too-big-to-fail" argument, he could have downsized. And so we end up with banks now that are bigger than ever. What Barack Obama could have done, he could...

... Deal remains important. The greatest crisis of political economy since the 1930s cannot be remedied by mere changes in policy. What is missing in the current political discourse is the recognition of the importance of democracy and labor rights to a stable financial regime. As Joseph Stiglitz advises...

... the financial bailout, endorsement of an independent consumer fiscal protection agency, and support for former Fed Chair Paul Volcker's plan to restrict the involvement of commercial banks in running hedge funds and engaging in proprietary trading. Economist Joseph Stiglitz called Obama's proposals "only a good...

... (interpreted as a triumph of the full embrace of unregulated markets by neoliberals of the day)2 served to "universalize" neoliberalism and ushered in a period of unprecedented global integration. However, as Joseph Stiglitz has pointed out, this 1 Ha-Joon Chang, "Breaking the Mould: An Institutionalist...

... to US foreign policy, where transnationally-oriented constituents find no 4Joseph E. Stiglitz, Globalization and Its Discontents (New York: W.W. Norton, 2003). 5 Morgan Kelly, "If You Thought the Bank Bailout was Bad, Wait until the Mortgage Defaults Hit Home," Irish Times, November 8, 2010...

... Defense. See Richard F. Kaufman (ed The Full Costs of Ballistic Missile Defense (Washington, DC: Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation, 2003). 6 Joseph E. Stiglitz, "Commentary: War Could Bomb Your Pocketbook," syndicated column, Los Angeles Times-Washington Post News Service, February 27, 2003. 7...

... by introducing long-term costs to the economy (often called an "inflationary bias 64 Joseph Stiglitz, "Central Banking in a Democratic Society," De Economist 146:2 (1998), pp. 199-226; see also Robert Pollin, "Financial Structures and Egalitarian Policy," Political EcononlY Research Institute, no. 182 (1995), pp...

... such as Amartya Sen and Joseph Stiglitz have criticized various dimensions of the "Washington Consensus"-the framework through which the International Monetary Fund and World Bank operate-for its parochial focus on privatization and fiscal austerity. Far less critical attention has been afforded to the ways...

... A. Irwin, Free Trade under Fire (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2002); and Robert Went, "Game, Set, and Match for Mr. Ricardo? The Surprising Comeback of Protectionism in the Era of Globalizing Free Trade," Journal of Economic Issues XXXIV:3 (September 2000), pp. 655-671. 111 Joseph E. Stiglitz...

... Giampietro, "The Energetic Metabolism of Societies and the Degrowth Paradigm: Analyzing Biophysical Constraints and Realities;' Journal ofCleaner Production 38 (2013), p. 81. 56Joseph Stiglitz, Amartya Sen, and Jean-Paul Fitoussi, "Report by the Commission on the Measurement of Economic Performance...

..., these policies stemmed from international financial institutions such as the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund who remain much maligned or at least problematic for some in the context of development policies in developing countries (see Stiglitz, 2002; Pogge, 2002, Easterly, 2001). @NEW POLITICAL...

... There is an abundance of literature concerning the New Wars. The most accessible text is Mary Kaldor, New and Old Wars: Organised Violence in a Global Era (Cambridge: Polity Press, 2006). 11 Joseph Stiglitz, "Towards a New Paradigm for Development: Strategies, Policies, and Processes," Paper given at Prebisch Lecture...