Joseph E. Stiglitz - Making Globalization Work

Filled with brilliant analyses of a wide range of issuesStiglitzs principal ambition is to offer not just critique, but a very concrete reform agenda.

Times Literary Supplement

[Stiglitz] briskly sorts out an assortment of issuesgrowth and poverty reduction, climate change, patent regimes, developing-country debtwith the air of a grandmaster dispatching 20 hapless opponents in a game of simultaneous chess.

Alan Beattie, Financial Times

A worthy counterpoint to Thomas Friedmans popular The World Is Flat .

Brendan Driscoll, Booklist

A searing critique of the conventional wisdom. Stiglitzs analysis is eye-openingbecause it is consistent and comprehensive, and he writes with rare clarity and passion for a distinguished economist.

Jeffrey E. Garten, Newsweek International

Presented with powerful, often emotional, arguments[Stiglitzs] head may be in his profession, but his heart is with the idealist and the hoodlums who disrupt high-toned conferences.

Joseph Lasos, St. Louis Post-Dispatch

At once a damning denunciation of things as they are, and a platform for how we can do better.

Andrew Leonard, Salon

Joseph Stiglitz is that rare breed: an economist who isnt afraid to declare that free trade must also be fair trade.

Jim Patterson, Foreign Service Journal

Some of these may seem like impossibly radical ideas now, butbooks like Making Globalization Work are where such ideas get their first popular airing.

Bruce Ramsay, Seattle Times

A brave book. Stiglitz is able to cut through the jargon and explain the complex in simple terms.

Russ Juskalian, USA Today

A well-written and informative primer on the major global economic problems. [Stiglitz] helps his readers understand exactly what is at stake.

Jeffry Frieden, New York Times Book Review

The establishment figure who turned on the establishmentan unlikely champion of the dispossessed.

Edie G. Lush, Spectator

Making Globalization Work offers a broad critical look at the world economy andproposes concrete policy goals and reforms. With a clarity the lay reader will appreciate, [Stiglitz] demonstrates that free trade doctrine does not have to be an intoxicant that legitimates domination; it can also be a set of civilized practices that promote equity as well as efficiency.

John Hoberman, Austin American-Statesman

The poster-boy of the anti-poverty movementrefreshingly readable.

Daily Telegraph

As a counterpoint to the market mantra, its a worthy agenda.

Steven Pearlstein, Washington Post

Passionate, engaging. He speaks from the heart as well as the head.

Independent

You dont have to agree with Stiglitz on every point to benefit from his creative thinking.

Peter Coy, BusinessWeek

The man with a mission to save the pooroffers a wealth of ideas for global reform.

The Times

Succeeds admirably at presenting a concrete course of action for strengthening the institutions and processes of political globalization.

Cynthia Cameros, Library Journal

His recommendations, delivered with simple elegance, should be widely accepted. It is rare for a book to contain such pressingly important ideas.

Sunday Herald

An excellent, very readable account of the shortcomings of globalizationa cry for fairness.

Observer

The thinker to put globalization to rights.

Scotsman

A thoughtful essay that sets out to provoke discussion in certain well-appointed offices, to say nothing of development and aid circles.

Kirkus Reviews

Every political movement needs intellectual leaders who help articulate its philosophy: Sitglitz has emerged as a major figure for both the developing and the developed worlds who are profoundly critical of the present character of globalization.

Martin Jacques, Guardian