Ralph Miliband and Global Policy public lecture
Date: Monday 8 February 2010
Time: 6.30-8pm
Venue: Peacock Theatre, Portugal Street
Speaker: Professor Joseph Stiglitz
Chair: Professor David Held
Stiglitz lays out not only the course of the financial crisis which began in 2007, but its underlying causes, and shows why much more radical reforms are needed than are currently being contemplated if we are to avoid similar 'systemic' crises in the future. Showing why the bailout has been only marginally effective and how it could have been much more so, and outlines the enormous opportunity - not yet taken - to design a new global financial architecture.
Joseph Stiglitz was Chief Economist at the World Bank until January 2000. He is currently University Professor of the Columbia Business School. He won the Nobel Prize for Economics in 2001 and is the author of the best-selling Globalization and Its Discontents, The Roaring Nineties, and Making Globalization Work.
This lecture celebrates the launch of his new book
Freefall: free markets and the sinking of the global economy.
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