Columbia Professor Joseph Stiglitz said the world confronts an inequality emergency, during an interview posted Thursday by ABC Radio National in Australia.
South Africa’s president named Stiglitz to head six-member taskforce to examine global wealth inequality and its impact on growth, poverty and multilateralism that will report its findings to the G20 summit in Johannesburg next week (download the report).
Stiglitz is a Nobel Laureate in economics and is a University Professor at Columbia Business School. He co-chairs the High-Level Expert Group on the Measurement of Economic Performance and Social Progress at the OECD, and is the chief economist of the Roosevelt Institute. He is also a member of the advisory board of Columbia’s Center for Political Economy, part of Columbia World Projects.
