Joseph Stiglitz

The International Monetary Fund boss, Kristalina Georgieva, is the victim of a plot to oust her, according to a Nobel prize-winning economist, after a report alleged that she applied "undue pressure" on staff to boost China's standing in global rankings while in her previous job at the World Bank.

Analysis by Joseph Stiglitz, American economist and Nobel laureate, comments for Project Sindicate

Ta Nea on 9 November published an interview with American economist and Nobel Prize winner Joseph Stiglitz in which he essentially admitted that he and a team of his colleagues from the University of Texas in 2015 were working on a plan for Greece to return to the drachma and leave the eurozone.

He viewed this prospect as an attractive solution for Greece's economic problems.

Dear Mr. Stiglitz,

It was an unpleasant surprise to hear that you participated along with other US academics in preparing a plan for Greece to exit the euro in 2015. The feeling was even harder, since you still believe that it was "carefully set" and seem rather disappointed for not finally implemented.

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Joseph Stiglitz is a Davos veteran. The renowned economist and winner of the 2001 Nobel Memorial Prize has attended dozens of World Economic Forum sessions in a number of capacities (including vice president of the World Bank and chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers under the Clinton administration). 

Nobel Prize-winning economist Professor Joseph Stiglitz, who as the former advisor to the Panama government spoke before a special inquiry committee set up by the European Parliament on the “Panama papers”. The renowned US economist called for “zero tolerance” against secret tax structures and that Europe should lead the way in achieving transparency in the global financial system.

Who will follow the British in their decision to leave the European Union? And are there likely to be any departures from the eurozone? For Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz, Italy is the next EU member-state that will be leaving the bloc, while he recommends that Greece and Portugal follow suit.

Badly conceived and economically wrong, the euro is at the heart of most of the eurozone's problems such as stagnation, unemployment and the rise of the far-right, Nobel-prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz told AFP on Sept. 13.

Nobel laureate economist Joseph E. Stiglitz spoke about Greece during athe conference of UNIDO in Vienna. A keynote speaker at the event, he was asked by reporters about Greece and said that the country is under strong pressure as a result of austerity measures while it is also being called on to assume the burden of the refugee crisis.

Nobel laureate Joseph Stiglitz criticized the austerity policies imposed on Greece by Germany and the eurozone during an interview with German newspaper Tagesspiegel. Stiglitz blamed Germany “for the mess.”