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Appointments:
University Professor. Teaching at the Columbia Business School, the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (Department of Economics) and the School of International and Public Affairs

Co-founder and President of the Initiative for Policy Dialogue (IPD)

Chair of Columbia University's Committee on Global Thought

Chair of the Management Board and Director of Graduate Summer Programs, Brooks World Poverty Institute, University of Manchester

Professor Stiglitz's New Book

The Three Trillion Dollar War: The True Cost of the Iraq Conflict
with Linda J. Bilmes, WW Norton, March 2008

Visit The Three Trillion Dollar War blog to read more and post your comments

"War at Any Cost? The Total Economic Costs of the War Beyond the Federal Budget," written testimony for the Joint Economic Committee, February 28, 2008.

"The $3 Trillion War," an excerpt from the book, in Vanity Fair, April 2008 issue.

Selected reviews and articles about The Three Trillion Dollar War

$3 Trillion May Be Too Low, by Joseph Stiglitz and Linda Bilmes, Comment is Free, The Guardian (UK), April 6, 2008.
Ask a Question: The Three Trillion Dollar War, readers' questions answered by Joseph Stiglitz and Linda Bilmes, McClatchy Newspapers.
How the US and Britain Went Wrong in Iraq, Review by Kit R. Roane, L.A. Times, March 30, 2008.
Iraq, $5,000 Per Second? By Nicholas Kristof, The New York Times, March 23, 2008.
False Economies, by Glenn C. Altschuler, Jerusalem Post, March 21, 2008.
Estimates of Iraq War Cost Were Not Close to Ballpark, by David Herszenhorn, New York Times, March 19, 2008.
Iraq war costs inspire shock and awe, By Stephen Fidler, The Financial Times, Monday, March 17, 2008.
War's price tag, by Joseph Stiglitz and Linda Bilmes, Los Angeles Times, Sunday, March 16, 2008.
What's the Tab? Reviewed by Carlos Lozada, Sunday, March 16, 2008.
$3 Trillion is Just a Part of the Cost, by Olivia Ward, The Toronto Star, March 16, 2008.
A $3 trillion debacle, Boston Globe, Saturday, March 15, 2008.
Eyeing the wages of war, The Economist, March 13, 2008.
ANALYSIS-U.S. economists see long-term ills from Iraq war, By Richard Cowan, Reuters, March 13, 2008.
Book: Iraq costs U.S. $12B per month, USA Today, March, 2008.
Iraq: Five years later and time to go, The Phoenix, March 12, 2008.
The Iraq War Will Cost Us $3 Trillion, and Much More, by Joseph Stiglitz and Linda Bilmes, The Washington Post, Sunday, March 9, 2008.
Joseph Stiglitz: The $3 Trillion Dollar War, Review by Sam Leith, The Telegraph (UK), March 8, 2008.
Conflict is Costing Trillions - "They Can Explain the Benefits", by Michael Glackin, The Independent (UK), Sunday, March 9, 2008.
Read Our Book Before Rushing to Judgment, by Joseph Stiglitz and Linda Bilmes, Financial Times, March 5, 2008, in response to the review, A War Appraisal Too Vast to Swallow, by Tunku Varadarajan, Financial Times, March 3, 2008.
The $2 Trillion Nightmare, by Bob Herbert, New York Times, March 4, 2008.
The Cold Price of Hot Blood, by Gary Kamiya, Salon.com, March 4, 2008.
Nobelist Stiglitz Tallies Iraq War's Outrageous Cost: Review, by Charles Taylor, Bloomberg News, March 4, 2008.
The $3,000,000,000,000 War is a Domestic Issue, by Arianna Huffington, Huffington Post, March 3, 2008.
War Hits US Economy, Stalls Recovery, by Daniel Trotta, Reuters, March 3, 2008.
The Three Trillion Dollar War, Project Syndicate, March 2008.
Wars' True Cost More than $3 Trillion, by Kevin G. Hall, McClatchy Newspapers, February 29, 2008.
Iraq War Will Cost Up to $5 Trillion, by Bob Deans, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, February 28, 2008.
One Iraq War - that's $3 Trillion to You, Mr. Bush, by David Smith, The Sunday Times (London), February 24, 2008.
The Three Trillion Dollar War, with Linda Bilmes, The Sunday Times (London), February 23, 2008.

Interviews with Stiglitz and Bilmes about The Three Trillion Dollar War

Joseph Stiglitz on "The Three Trillion Dollar War," interview with Jeremy Hall, National Business Review, March 17, 2008.
Counting Cost of War, interview with Paul Tansey, Irish Times, March 7, 2008.
Interview with Joseph Stiglitz on "The Three Trillion Dollar War," interview with George Negus, Dateline, Special Broadcasting Service, March 5, 2008.
Wages of War, interview with Brian Lehrer, WNYC New York Public Radio, March 5, 2008.
Linda Bilmes on Our "Three Trillion Dollar War," interview with Dave Davies, NPRs Fresh Air, March 3, 2008.
Joseph Stiglitz on Our "Three Trillion Dollar War," interview with Dave Davies, NPRs Fresh Air, March 3, 2008.
The Cost of the Iraq War, interview with Scott Jagow, Marketplace, March 3, 2008.
The Cost of Conflict, interview with Rana Foroohar, Newsweek, March 3, 2008 issue.
Stiglitz Says Iraq War Totally Financed with Borrowing, interview with Tom Keene, Bloomberg Radio, March 1, 2008.
The Three Trillion Dollar War, interview with Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez, Democracy Now, February 29, 2008.
The True Cost of War, by Aida Edemariam, The Guardian (UK), February 28, 2008.
Stiglitz: $3tn Iraq Legacy to Hit Next President, by Emma Thelwell, The Telegraph (UK), February 27, 2008, and interview with Robert Miller.
The True Cost of the War in Iraq: Implications for the Global Economy, address at Chatham House, London, February 26, 2008.

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Stiglitz on...

The Global Economy

Deficit, Scmeficit, Conde Nast Portfolio, May 2008 Issue.
Nobel Winner Stiglitz: U.S. Facing Long Recession, Interview with CNBC, April 25, 2008.
Stiglitz on the Economy, interview on Squawk Box, CNBC, April 10, 2008.
A Deficit of Leadership, Comment is Free, The Guardian (UK), April 8, 2008.
Stiglitz on US Economy, interview with Anna Martin, CNBC, April 2, 2008.
Ways We Can Fix This Giant Mess, Newsweek, March 31, 2008.
Day of Financial Reckoning, interview on Lou Dobbs Tonight, CNN, March 31, 2008.
Are We in the Worst Financial Crisis and Can We Solve it? You Ask the Questions... the Independent (UK), March 24, 2008.
Economist Stiglitz Blames Crunch on "Flawed" City Bonuses System, by Sean O'Grady, the Independent (UK), March 24, 2008.
Stiglitz: U.S. Fiscal Measures Too Little Too Late, by Brian Fallow, New Zealand Herald, March 19, 2008.
Iraq War Caused Slowdown in the US, by Peter Wilson, The Australian, February 28, 2008.
Alpine Schadenfreude, Project Syndicate, February 2008.
How to Stop the Downturn, The New York Times, January 23, 2008.
Day of Reckoning in the US Glasshouse, The Times (London), January 21, 2008.
Stagflation Cometh, The Guardian (UK), January 2, 2008.

Wolfowitz and the World Bank

Questions for Robert Zoellick, Project Syndicate, June 2007.
The World Bank and Development Assistance, Testimony Prepared for presentation before the House Financial Services Committee, May 22, 2007.
Good Governance Begins at Home, Project Syndicate, May 2007.
The Wolfowitz Affair and its Consequences, The Financial Times, May 6, 2007.

Climate Change

Nobel Laureate Joseph Stiglitz Calls for "Greening" of Globalization, Worldwatch Institute, by Hilary French, October 16, 2006.

The Changing Climate on Climate Change, Project Syndicate, February 2007.

The Most Global Issue, Our Planet, the magazine of the United Nations Environment Programme, February 2007.

A Cool Calculus of Global Warming, Project Syndicate, November 2006.

How Globalization Could Help Ease Global Warming, The San Francisco Chronicle, September 17, 2006.
"A New Agenda for Global Warming," The Economists' Voice, July 2006.