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Joe Stiglitz: Economics Rock Star hits the Burlo
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Thursday August 31, 2006 00:32 by seedot
Attempting to make globalisation work. A report on the Geary Lecture 2006, organised by the ESRI, presented by Professor Joseph Stiglitz in the Burlington hotel on the afternoon of 30th August The Geary lecture is one of the heavywight gigs on the Irish economics circuit and this year they scored a bit of a coup by getting Joe Stiglitz to stop off on his tour to promote his new book - Making Globalisation Work. Entering the room early the sound system had good warm up music and the 750 seats filled fairly quickly with the economics groupies. At this point let me say I had considered myself a real fan - I even caught Professor Stiglitz when he was still doing lecture theatres and selling a paper instead of a book - back before he was v. famous. He told jokes that I laughed at then and probably wouldn't remember or understand why exactly they were funny now. This time around the jokes were more accessible, he was just as willing to tilt at some windmills and attack some icons but overall this wasn't a great show. |
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Jump To Comment: 1 2It's also worth noting that Stiglitz thinks that China is an example of globalisation done right and in his latest book "Fair Trade for All" argues for liberalising labour markets (e.g. promoting Bush's bracero model). There was a good NYT review in April which pointed out that although Free Trade /might/ increase wealth in a particular country it didn't promote distribution of that wealth within the country and the basic structures created during the New Deal are being rapidly eroded in the USA.
"What is surprising is that somebody who has spent so much time in the corridors of power should refuse to acknowledge the core problem with so many of his solutions - in the example above, who gets to pick the prize and decide whats socially good?"
Yeah, well, there are a lot of elites and cliques (big and small, left and right) who dont seem to be able to get their self-important brains around that problem, who lie about the privileges their situation confers on them because they so much want to keep the door onto their cosy little world well shut, to say nothing of victimising and abusing people who try to point their glaring hypocrisy out to them. WE and THEY are all the same in that context - usually men determined to make personal capital out the situation - whether its self-importance, power or wealth - or all three. I suspect the issue that truly bothers this reporter is not that there appear to be two mutually exclusive groups in the equation but rather that he is not a part of the privileged 'WE' group himself. After all he once rubbed shoulders with the man and even condescended to find his jokes amusing. What we see here is really an attempt to cut Stiglitz down to a size that the reporter's transparently envious ego is able to cope with.
An article by Stiglitz himself :
http://www2.gsb.columbia.edu/faculty/jstiglitz/download...e.pdf