People, Power, and Profits

Joseph E. Stiglitz was Chairman of the President's Council of Economic Advisers 1995-7 and Chief Economist at the World Bank 1997-2000. He won the Nobel Prize for Economics in 2001 and is the bestselling author of Globalization and Its Discontents, The Roaring Nineties, Making Globalization Work, Freefall, The Price of Inequality, The Great Divide and The Euro, all published by Penguin.We all have the sense that our economy tilts toward big business, but, as Joseph E. Stiglitz explains in People