The Road to Freedom

Freedom is a core value of life. But today, the language of freedom has been co-opted and used to justify exploitation. Pharmaceutical companies are free to overcharge for medication, big tech is free from oversight, politicians are free to incite rebellion, corporations are free to pollute and more. How did we get here? Whose freedom are weshould webe thinking about?'In The Road to Freedom: Economics and the Good Society, Joseph E. Stiglitz reveals why America's core political and economic systems don't offer true freedom. Taking on giants of neoliberalism and free market capitalism, such as Hayek and Friedman, Stiglitz turns these accepted ideas about our systems on their head. The Road to Freedom offers a fundamental reevaluation of democracy, economics and what constitutes a good society, showing what kind of economic and political system is most likely to deliver a good society, including one that enhances meaningful freedoms for most individuals. Stiglitz's latest is vital reading for anyone envisioning a future led by tolerance, education and, above all, freedom.

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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 Era 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.

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Praise for Joseph E. Stiglitz

"[Joseph E. Stiglitz] is an insanely great economist."
- Paul Krugman

"Along with Krugman and Thomas Piketty, Stiglitz forms a triumvirate of leading economic critics of global capitalism, 21st-century-style."
- Andrew Anthony, Guardian

Praise for People, Power, and Profits

"Urgent work, by the foremost champion of 'progressive capitalism.'"
- The New Yorker

"The policy shop of every 2020 Democratic candidate for president would be wise to pore over People, Power, and Profits and cherry-pick its best ideas."
- Daniel W. Drezner, New York Times

Praise for The Price of Inequality

"The single most comprehensive counterargument to both Democratic neoliberalism and Republican laissez-faire theories. . . . Stiglitz's contribution . . . to the public debate cannot be overestimated."
- Thomas B. Edsall, New York Times Book Review

"A searing read."
- Nicholas Kristof, New York Times

"A model of clarity."
- Jared Bernstein, Rolling Stone