Professor Joseph Stiglitz on Modern Industrial Policy: The role of the state in tackling climate change, boosting productivity and creating the jobs of the future

Hear from one of the world’s most respected and influential economists, Professor Joseph E. Stiglitz, as he shares insights on Australia’s growing inequality, the levers available to governments to address it, and his latest book, ‘The Road to Freedom: Economics and the Good Society’, at UTS Business School on Tuesday 30 July. 

Professor Stiglitz is a Nobel Laureate, former World Bank Chief Economist, best-selling author and professor at Columbia University.

“Professor Joseph Stiglitz is not only one of the world’s leading economists; he has a unique ability to communicate complex economic ideas in an engaging and informative way. Professor Stiglitz’s imagination and clarity are just what Australia’s public debate needs as we face a cost-of-living crisis, a climate crisis, and declining faith in democracy,” Dr Richard Denniss, Executive Director, the Australia Institute. 

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5:30pm Registrations open
6:00pm Lecture
6:50pm Audience Q&A

UTS Business School is delighted to welcome Professor Stiglitz back to UTS, in partnership with the Australia Institute, as part of the Australia Institute’s 30th anniversary celebrations.

About the Speaker

Joseph E. Stiglitz is an American economist and a professor at Columbia University. He is also the co-chair of the High-Level Expert Group on the Measurement of Economic Performance and Social Progress at the OECD, and the Chief Economist of the Roosevelt Institute. Stiglitz was awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 2001 and the John Bates Clark Medal in 1979. He is a former senior vice president and chief economist of the World Bank and a former chair of the U.S. Council of Economic Advisers.

In 2000, Stiglitz founded the Initiative for Policy Dialogue, a think tank on international development based at Columbia University. In 2011 Stiglitz was named by Time magazine as one of the 100 most influential people in the world. Known for his pioneering work on asymmetric information, Stiglitz's research focuses on income distribution, climate change, corporate governance, public policy, macroeconomics and globalization. He is the author of numerous books including, most recently, People, Power, and Profits, Rewriting the Rules of the European Economy, and Globalization and Its Discontents Revisited

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About the Australia Institute

The Australia Institute is committed to promoting ethical and responsible decision-making and procedures in relation to the research it carries out and the reports it publishes. Its activities are governed by the highest standards of reporting, based on exhaustively researched topics and constructive and unbiased conclusions.

About UTS Business School 

UTS Business School is a socially-committed business school focused on developing and sharing knowledge for an innovative, sustainable, prosperous economy in a fairer world. We work closely and collaboratively with businesses, policymakers and public institutions, and our community to produce socially responsible and economically fair outcomes, and use education and research as a pathway to individual mobility, social diversity and economic equality.