Livestream of DLD Annual Lecture with Nobel Laureate Joseph E. Stiglitz

Livestream of SOAS DLD Annual Lecture with Nobel Laureate Joseph E. Stiglitz.

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Individual freedom and national sovereignty are universal aspirations, but what do these concepts really mean? What happens when one individual’s or country’s liberty infringes on the freedom of others? Countries and individuals do not live in isolation of others.

In this lecture, Professor Joseph E. Stiglitz will explain how collective action, with well-designed regulations, at the national and international level, is necessary for economic prosperity and individual and societal wellbeing while answering questions of what do concepts of individual freedom and national sovereignty as universal aspirations really mean, and what happens when one individual’s or country’s liberty infringes on the freedom of others.

Speakers

• Professor Joseph E. Stiglitz (Columbia University)
• Chair: Professor Ha-Joon Chang (SOAS DLD Co-Director)

About the Speaker

Joseph E. Stiglitz is an American economist and a Professor at Columbia University. He is also the co-chair of the High-Level Expert Group on the Measurement of Economic Performance and Social Progress at the OECD, the co-chair of The Independent Commission for the Reform of International Corporate Taxation (ICRICT) and the Chief Economist of the Roosevelt Institute.

Stiglitz was awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics in 2001. He is a former senior vice president and chief economist of the World Bank and a former member and chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers. Stiglitz founded the Initiative for Policy Dialogue, a think tank on international development based at Columbia University, in 2000.

He has been a member of the Columbia faculty since 2001 and received that university's highest academic rank (University Professor) in 2003. In 2011 Stiglitz was named by Time magazine as one of the 100 most influential people in the world. In 2024 he was named an Honorary Academician by the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences.

He is the author of numerous books, including, most recently, The Road to Freedom: Economics and the Good Society.

Info event on SOAS Website.

Please note that this ticket provides access to the online livestream only.