People, Power, and Profits: Progressive Capitalism for an Age of Discontent

Joseph E. Stiglitz

Apr 2019 · W. W. Norton & Company

About this ebook

“Urgent work, by the foremost champion of ‘progressive capitalism.’ ” —The New Yorker

An authoritative account of the dangers of unfettered markets and monied politics, People, Power, and Profits shows us an America in crisis. The American people, however, are far from powerless, and Joseph Stiglitz provides an alternative path forward through his vision of progressive capitalism, with a comprehensive set of political and economic changes.

Ratings and reviews

China is the owner of capital, they use capital to create jobs; capital is the owner of USA, usa citizen has no pay rise for the past 40 years. USA will fall. Simply because the invisible hands help companies accumulating fortune and government abandones its citizen. Air flight is safer than cars, simply because of data in blackbox and its cumbersome engineering. Where is your engineering? my dear governments and economists. you're aware that not professionally facing your transparency is equivalent to corruption.

About the author

Joseph E. Stiglitz is a Nobel Prize–winning economist and the best-selling author of People, Power, and Profits: Progressive Capitalism for an Age of Discontent; Globalization and Its Discontents Revisited: Anti-Globalization in the Age of Trump; The Price of Inequality; and Freefall. He was chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers under President Clinton, chief economist of the World Bank, named by Time as one of the 100 most influential individuals in the world, and now teaches at Columbia University and is chief economist of the Roosevelt Institute.