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Joseph E. Stiglitz has time and again diagnosed Americas greatest economic challenges, from the Great Recession and its feeble recovery to the yawning gap between the rich and the poor. The Great Divide gathers his most provocative reflections on the subject of inequality, probing for answers to the greatest threat to American prosperity and explaining its role in the countrys ongoing malaise.

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A singular voice of reason in an era defined by bitter politics and economic uncertainty, Joseph E. Stiglitz has time and again diagnosed Americas greatest economic challenges, from the Great Recession and its feeble recovery to the yawning gap between the rich and the poor. The Great Divide gathers his most provocative reflections on the subject of inequality, probing for answers to the greatest threat to American prosperity and explaining its role in the countrys on-going malaise. As Stiglitz ably argues, a healthy economy and a fairer democracy are within our grasp, if we can put aside misguided interests and abandon failed policies. Opening with the essay that gave the Occupy Movement its slogan, We are the 99%, later essays in The Great Divide reveal equality of opportunity as a national myth and explain reforms that would spur higher growth and greater equality.

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Joseph Stiglitz, geboren 1943 in den USA, war Professor für Volkswirtschaft in Yale, Princeton, Oxford und Stanford, bevor er 1993 zu einem Wirtschaftsberater der Clinton-Regierung wurde. Anschließend ging er als Chefvolkswirt zur Weltbank. 2001 wurde er mit dem Nobelpreis für Wirtschaft ausgezeichnet. Stiglitz lehrt heute an der Columbia University in New York und ist ein weltweit geschätzter Experte zu Fragen von Ökonomie, Politik und Gesellschaft. Er ist Autor mehrerer Bücher.

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