The Stiglitz Report: Reforming the International Monetary and Financial Systems in the Wake of the Global Crisis (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781595585202)

The fact that our global economy is broken may be widely accepted, but what precisely needs to be fixed has become the subject of enormous controversy. In 2008, the president of the United Nations General Assembly convened an international panel, chaired by Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz and including twenty leading international experts on the international monetary system, to address this crucial issue.

The Stiglitz Report, released by the committee in late 2009, sees the recent financial crisis as the latest and most damaging of several concurrent crises--of food, water, energy, and sustainability--that are tightly interrelated. The analysis and recommendations in the report cover the gamut from short-term mitigation to deep structural changes, from crisis response to reform of the global, economic, and financial architecture.

The report establishes a bold agenda for policy change, that is sure to be the gold standard for understanding and contending with the international economy for many years to come. The Stiglitz Report is essential reading for anyone concerned about a secure and prosperous world.

Author: Joseph E. Stiglitz
ISBN-10: 1595585206
ISBN-13: 9781595585202
Publisher: New Press
Language: English
Published: 04/27/2010
Pages: 240
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.53lbs
Size: 7.50h x 5.56w x 0.62d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 11/01/2010
Reference and Research Bk News 08/01/2010 pg. 93