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Podcast: New Books in Public Policy
Episode: Joseph E. Stiglitz, "The Road to Freedom: Economics and the Good Society" (Norton, 2024)
Description: In his latest book, The Road to Freedom: Economics and the Good Society (W. W. Norton, 2024), Nobel laureate Joseph E. Stiglitz rethinks the nature of freedom and its relationship to capitalism. While many agree that freedom is good and we want more of it, we don’t agree about what it is, whose freedom we’re talking about, or what outcomes we desire.Stiglitz asks the question: whose freedom are we talking about, and what happens when one person’s freedom means a loss of freedom for someone else?Narratives of neoliberalism have been accept...