Economic recovery in the post-pandemic world – Kapuscinski Development Lectures – what top thinkers think about development

Joseph E. Stiglitz is an American economist and a professor at Columbia University. A recipient of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences (2001) and the John Bates Clark Medal (1979), he is a former senior vice president and chief economist of the World Bank and a former member and chairman of the (US president’s) Council of Economic Advisers. In 2000, Stiglitz founded the Initiative for Policy Dialogue, a think tank on international development based at Columbia University. He has been a member of the Columbia faculty since 2001 and received that university’s highest academic rank (university professor) in 2003. 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 work focuses on income distribution, risk, corporate governance, public policy, macroeconomics and globalization. He is the author of numerous books, and several bestsellers. His most recent titles are People, Power, and Profits, Rewriting the Rules of the European Economy, Globalization and Its Discontents Revisited, The Euro and Rewriting the Rules of the American Economy.

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The post-pandemic world: restructuring globalization for the global public good

How will the world economy look like after the pandemic? Will governments take initiative to reshape their economies for serving human needs? Is this a turning point for restructuring globalization for the public good?

When: 6th October 2020 at 16:00 CET / 14:00 GMT (check time around the world).

Where: online. Register here (limited capacity).

You can join the lecture by:

connecting via Zoom platform to the lecture and ask your questions to the speaker
following livestreaming from the event at kapuscinskilectures.eu
asking your questions to speaker via Twitter using #KAPTalks hashtag

The lecture will be moderated by Anya Schiffrin, director of the technology and media specialization at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs and a lecturer who teaches on global media, innovation, and human rights.

If you’re registered and don’t show up by 16:05 CET / 14:00 GMT your place will be freed to others.

If the room is full and you can’t register or enter the event, follow live streaming at kapuscinskilectures.eu.

English – Turkish interpretation available on Zoom.

Photo: Daniel Baud and the Sydney Opera House

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