The global market economy is not working

Abstract

One of the world’s foremost economists, Joseph Stiglitz is a Nobel laureate, former chief economist of the World Bank and former chair of the US Presidential Council of Economic Advisors. Ben Turok interviewed him at the BRICS conference in Durban in November 2015. They spoke about US responses to the financial crisis, startling new thinking at the IMF, and options for South Africa’s economic future.