Professor Stiglitz is a former Chief Economist at the World Bank, a former chair of the U.S. President’s Economic Council, and his most recent book The Road to Freedom: Economics and the Good Society unpicks what real economic freedom means, and how to achieve it.

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Professor Joseph Stiglitz, Nobel Laureate, former chief economist at the World Bank, former chair of the council of economic Advisers and author of The Road to Freedom: Economics and the Good Society.

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