London, 30/08/2016. Today, LSE (London School of Economics and Political Studies) presented a public lecture - part of LSE European Institute public conversation - called "The Euro: and its threat to Europe" hosted by the author of the homonymous book, Prof. Joseph E. Stiglitz (American economist, Professor at Columbia University, recipient of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 2001 and the John Bates Clark Medal in 1979. He is the former Senior Vice President and...
more »London, 30/08/2016. Today, LSE (London School of Economics and Political Studies) presented a public lecture - part of LSE European Institute public conversation - called "The Euro: and its threat to Europe" hosted by the author of the homonymous book, Prof. Joseph E. Stiglitz (American economist, Professor at Columbia University, recipient of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 2001 and the John Bates Clark Medal in 1979. He is the former Senior Vice President and Chief Economist of the World Bank, and he is also a former member and chairman of the US President's Council of Economic Advisers. Prof. Stiglitz is well known for his critical view of the management of globalization, free-market economists - whom he calls "free market fundamentalists" - , and some international institutions like the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank). Chair of the event was Dr. Waltraud Schelkle (Associate Professor of Political Economy at the European Institute and has been at LSE since autumn 2001, teaching courses on the political economy of European integration at MSc and PhD level). From the event online page: <<In his new book The Euro: And its Threat to Europe, Nobel Prize-winning economist and bestselling author Joseph Stiglitz argues that saving Europe may mean abandoning the Euro. Stiglitz dismantles the prevailing consensus around what ails Europe and dismisses the champions of austerity. Instead, Stiglitz will show that Europe's stagnation and bleak outlook are a direct result of the fundamental flaws in the euro project – economic integration outpacing political integration with a structure that actively promotes divergence rather than convergence. Money relentlessly leaves the weaker member states and goes to the strong, with debt accumulating in a few ill-favoured countries. The question now is: can the euro be saved?>>.
Here there is the link to podcast of the lecture:
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