• ISBN13: 9780718197384
• Binding: Paperback
• Subject: N/A
• Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
• Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books Ltd
• Publication Date: April 8, 2013
• Pages: 592
• Original Price: INR 999.0
• Language: English
• Edition: N/A
• Item Weight: 410 grams
• BISAC Subject(s): Poverty & Homelessness

'The Price of Inequality' provides a powerful critique of free-market ideas, and of the directions that America and many other societies have taken over the past 30 years, showing not why they are unfair, but also unwise.

Stiglitz, Joseph: - 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 is currently University Professor at Columbia University, teaching in the Department of Economics, the School of International and Public Affairs, and the Graduate School of Business. He is also the Chief Economist of the Roosevelt Institute and a Corresponding Fellow of the Royal Society and the British Academy. 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 and The Great Divide, all published by Penguin.