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To borrow from the title of a recent book by nobel laureate economist joe stiglitz, these results suggest to me a great divide. Apr 29, 2015 by taking what he sees as practical political steps, such as making those at the top pay their fair share, spending more in areas that we all value education, health, and infrastructure and eliminating the corrosive advantages built into our markets, stiglitz argues that we can once again create the opportunities that have for so long. Stiglitz has time and again diagnosed americas greatest economic challenges, from the great recession and its feeble recovery to the yawning gap between the rich and. A good quality curvy gravel road through thousands of colored aspens brings you higher and higher. In the price of inequality, his 2012 scholarly tome ch, feb, 503543, stiglitz methodically laid out the problems as he saw them and the reforms and ameliorations he envisioned and advocated. In the face of rising inequality in america, joseph e. Progressive capitalism for an age of discontent, by joseph e. Stiglitz argued that inequality is not inevitable but a choice the cumulative result of unjust policies and misguided priorities. Bush 27 capitalist pools 4 o the anatomy of a murder. An agenda for global governance for the twentyfirst century pdf, ebook published in 2011 by the paris group chairmen jeanpaul fitoussi and joseph e.