The Role of Cooperatives in Globalisation

Joseph Stiglitz, Columbia University, USA

Working Paper No 9/2004, Luglio, Italy
Universita di Genova, Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche e Finanziarie

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Joseph Stiglitz is an influential economist and academic. He was Chief Economist at the World Bank until January 2000. Before that he was Chairman of President Clinton's Council of Economic Advisors. He is currently Professor of Finance and Economics at Columbia University. He won the Noble Prize for Economics in 2001. His most recent books Globalisation and Its Discontents and The Roaring Nineties - Why we're paying the price for the greediest decade in History are international best sellers.

This short paper was prepared for the Legacoop International Conference on The Culture of Development, Globalisation and Cooperative Enterprise held in Genoa, Italy, 2 to 3 July 2004.