Joseph Stiglitz

• IEA Appoints World Bank's Kaushik Basu as President-Elect

  The International Economic Association (IEA) has appointed Kaushik Basu, who is Chief Economist and Senior Vice President of the World Bank, as its president-elect.

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  Regulatory Policy Work Wins France's Jean Tirole Economics Nobel

  French economist Jean Tirole won the 2014 Nobel Prize for economics for his work that has shed light on how governments should regulate powerful companies that dominate markets, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences said on Monday.

• Crises Past and Future Occupy Bernanke, Reinhart at Nobel's Home

  Greatest economic minds talk about crises -- both past and future.

• Stiglitz Says True U.S.-China Trade Accord `Almost Impossible'

  Stiglitz says U.S. should recognize China as developing nation.  

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  Joseph Stiglitz Quits Panama Papers Clean-Up Committee

  Nobel prize-winning US economist Joseph Stiglitz has resigned from a committee of international experts named to help reform Panama's financial services sector after the Panama Papers scandal, the government said Friday.

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  Subramanian Swamy Tweets On US Report Regarding India's Growth

  BJP lawmaker Subramanian Swamy today tweeted about a US State Department report suggesting India's growth rate is over-estimated.

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  How I Would Vote in the Greek Referendum

  Neither alternative approval or rejection of the terms Greece has been presented with will be easy, and both carry huge risks, says Joseph E. Stiglitz.

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  Regulatory Policy Work Wins France's Jean Tirole Economics Nobel

  French economist Jean Tirole won the 2014 Nobel Prize for economics for his work that has shed light on how governments should regulate powerful companies that dominate markets, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences said on Monday.

• IEA Appoints World Bank's Kaushik Basu as President-Elect

  The International Economic Association (IEA) has appointed Kaushik Basu, who is Chief Economist and Senior Vice President of the World Bank, as its president-elect.

• Central banks should not look only at inflation target: Montek

  Ahead of a quarterly policy review by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI), Planning Commission Deputy Chairman Montek Singh Ahluwalia has said controlling inflation should not be the only target of central banks.

• RBI governor to attend IMF conference in April

  Reserve Bank of India governor Duvvuri Subbarao will share his perspective at an International Monetary Fund conference next month in Washington that will discuss policy pursued by various governments in the aftermath of global financial crisis.

• Budget 2013: Chidambaram wins applause from members by invoking poets, scholars in speech

  Finance Minister P Chidambaram's low-key budget presentation won applause from members as he seasoned it with a fair sprinkling of quotations from poets and scholars, and highlighted sensitive issues that struck a chord with even those seated on the opposition benches.

• Will smart machines create a world without work?

  They seem right out of a Hollywood fantasy, and they are: Cars that drive themselves have appeared in movies like "I, Robot" and the television show "Knight Rider."

• New banks welcome, but systemic controls important: Uday Kotak

  Conglomerates being considered for new banking licences in India should be asked to have systemic controls to safeguard against any contagion impact of problems in their other businesses, eminent banker Uday Kotak has said.

• Government should play role in land acquisition: Joseph Stiglitz

  He said that land acquisition was really a sensitive issue across the world.