China is using its economic growth as a lever to demand countries stay away from the Nobel ceremony in Oslo today honoring an imprisoned Chinese dissident.
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In a wide-ranging interview, the Nobel Prize winner decries the system of skewed incentives that allowed Wall Street bankers and other corporate execs to gamble with the country’s wealth — and then get away largely scot-free. What happened to “with justice for all,” he asks.
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Interview Transcript: Joseph Stiglitz, Oct. 20, 2010
By Sam Gustin and Michael Rainey
Prof. Joseph Stiglitz is University Professor at Columbia University and Chair, Columbia University Committee on Global Thought. He teaches classes at the Columbia B…
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