Nobel Prize Winner Joseph Stiglitz on “The Road To Freedom"

Following the discussion, we invite you to join us for a meet-and-greet with the author, book signing and light refreshments.

(WW Norton, April 23, 2024)

Joseph Stiglitz, Nobel Prize-winning economist

Kenneth S. Corts, Vice-Dean, Research, Strategy, and Resources & Academic Director, Lee-Chin Institute for Corporate Citizenship, Rotman School of Management

Join us for the Canadian launch of Nobel Prize–winning economist Joseph E. Stiglitz’s latest book, .

In this compelling work, Stiglitz analyzes how free markets have fueled inequality and environmental crises, and makes the case for reimagining our economic and legal systems to drive progress for all. Exploring the rhetoric of “freedom”, Stiglitz explores how pharmaceutical companies, Big Tech, and major corporations are setting their own agendas. How did we get here? Whose freedom are we—and should we—be thinking about?

Stiglitz, author of bestsellers like People, Power, and Profits and The Price of Inequality, is one of Time’s 100 most influential individuals. Currently a professor at Columbia University and chief economist at the Roosevelt Institute, he offers crucial insights into the future of economic and political freedom.

Drawing on his experience as an advisor to presidents and chief economist of the World Bank, Stiglitz will share fresh perspectives on today’s pressing challenges. Don’t miss this opportunity to hear from one of the world’s foremost economists!

Photo credit: Gabriela Sciolino Plump

Joseph E. Stiglitz is a Nobel Prize–winning economist and the best-selling author of People, Power, and Profits: Progressive Capitalism for an Age of Discontent; Globalization and Its Discontents Revisited: Anti-Globalization in the Age of Trump; The Price of Inequality; and Freefall. He was chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers under President Clinton, chief economist of the World Bank, named by Time as one of the 100 most influential individuals in the world, and now teaches at Columbia University and is chief economist of the Roosevelt Institute.

Kenneth S. Corts is the Vice-Dean, Research, Strategy, and Resources, and Academic Director of the Lee-Chin Institute for Corporate Citizenship at the Rotman School of Management, where he holds the Desautels Chair in Entrepreneurship. He specializes in the Economic Analysis and Policy area. At the University of Toronto, he has held several leadership roles, including Interim Dean at Rotman and Acting Vice-Provost, Academic Operations. As a microeconomist, Professor Corts explores industrial organization, competition policy, organizational economics, and energy policy and his research has been supported by prestigious organizations such as the National Science Foundation and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. He has published in leading academic journals like the Rand Journal of Economics and the Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization, and authored widely-used Harvard Business School case studies. In addition to his academic contributions, he has provided expert testimony in competition policy cases before the Competition Tribunal and Ontario Superior Court and advised on antitrust issues in the U.S.

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• The event will be hosted in Desautels Hall at the Rotman School of Management (105 St. George St., Toronto, ON M5S 3E6). Your registration fee includes a copy of the book and meet-and-greet with book signing by the author.
  

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Event Venue & Nearby Stays

Rotman School of Management, 105 St. George Street, Toronto, Canada