This paper provides an overview of the key issues relating to taxation, public policy and the dynamics of unemployment.It takes issue with the widely held view that generous social insurance schemes and the associated highpayroll taxes have been the major cause of the high unemployment rates...

This paper is the first in a series. Among the results are: 1) Indifference curves between premiums and payouts are not generally quasi-concave; as a result the price- and income-consumption lines are generally not continuous; 2) Accident prevention effort is generally not continuous or monotonic...

Ten years after the East Asian crisis, Joseph E. Stiglitz reviews what we have learned and asks how those lessons apply to the current sub-prime credit debacle.

Transfers and economic costs are indeed different in the war in Iraq, and transfers may be significant.

Joseph E. Stiglitz presents his plan for getting the United States and the Developing World to address global warming, and argues that by failing to address this problem, the United States is implicitly subsidizing energy usage and engaging in unfair trade practices.

Joseph Stiglitz argues that in certain respects the economy is precarious and a crisis is possible, but global malaise is more likely in 2006.