Authors@Google: Joseph Stiglitz

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Oct 2006


(43 min)

Joseph Stiglitz, the Nobel Prize-winning economist, speaks about his book Making Globalization Work.

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the world is not flat, Prof Stiglitz said, as if Tom doesn't know. actually there are some chapters about "unflat world".

But Stiglitz is really extending "solutions" for the unflat world. but about debt, it would be more likely a result, rather than a reason.


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when some developing nations signed some agreement of medicine patent, they were de facto death certs for thousand of people in the nations who no longer afforded treatments. Prof said. even, a pattern of DNA is patentable.

and, intellectual property of knowledge, which is public good, is inefficient economically, coz the marginally production cost is almost zero.

so, how should it be reformed?

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but global warming? please.