Cropped picture of Joseph Stiglitz, U.S. economist. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

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Listen to Nobel Prize winning economistJoe Stiglitz on global inequality. It’s RECOMMENDED LISTENING, in my view (53 mins).

via BBC World Service – Exchanges: The Global Economy, Exchanges: The Global Economy, Joseph Stiglitz.

Here is the BBC’s introduction to the interview:

Professor Joseph Stiglitz joins the BBC’s Justin Rowlatt, a phalanx of French economists and the Parisian public, as they debate the cost of inequality, at Paris Dauphine University.

Professor Stiglitz is a Nobel Prize winning economist, a former advisor of Bill Clinton and former chief economist of the World Bank. His counsel is sought by much of the developing world’s leadership and by progressives across the globe. He has a stark warning to make: inequality…