This collection of essays reflects how modern economics has been shaped by Joseph Stiglitz, one of the world's greatest economists. The contributions to this volume, all penned by high-profile authors who have been guided by or collaborated with Stiglitz over the last five decades, span...

Joseph Stiglitz is one of the world’s greatest economists. He has made fundamental contributions to economic theory in areas such as inequality, the implications of imperfect and asymmetric information, and competition, and he has been a major figure in policy making, a leading public...

Este ensayo argumenta que el auge reciente de las economías latinoamericanas se explica por la coincidencia de dos factores externos que no se daban simultáneamente desde los años 1970: buenos precios de materias primas (de hidrocarburos y productos mineros, más que agrícolas) y condiciones...