Joseph Stiglitz - Will the Economic Stimulus Package Work? February 21, 2008

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Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2008/02/05/Joseph_Stiglitz_Economics_of_Information

Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz argues that increasing unemployment compensation should be a necessary first step for any national economic stimulus plan.

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Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz ("Globalization and Its Discontents") talks about his new concept of economics, "The Economics of Information," and his latest book, "Making Globalization Work" - Asia Society

Joseph Stiglitz was chief economist at the World Bank until January 2000. Before that he was the chairman of President Clinton's Council of Economic Advisers. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in economics in 2001. He is currently a finance and economics professor at Columbia University. He is the author of Globalization and Its Discontents and The Roaring Nineties.