Joseph Stiglitz

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  Bitcoins: Boom Or Bust? 10 Things Experts Said About The Cryptocurrency

  Bitcoins may have managed to draw interest of millions of investors worldwide but the bitcoin surge has been labelled as 'speculative mania' by some, while one Nobel laureate recommended it to be outlawed

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  Bitcoin Hits $12,000 For First Time: Five Things To Know About The Cryptocurrency

  Bitcoin's meteoric rise to $12,000 has drawn regulatory scrutiny around the world. Nobel laureate economist Joseph Stiglitz said the cryptocurrency should be outlawed

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  Joseph Stiglitz Quits Panama Papers Clean-Up Committee

  Nobel prize-winning US economist Joseph Stiglitz has resigned from a committee of international experts named to help reform Panama's financial services sector after the Panama Papers scandal, the government said Friday.

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  Subramanian Swamy Tweets On US Report Regarding India's Growth

  BJP lawmaker Subramanian Swamy today tweeted about a US State Department report suggesting India's growth rate is over-estimated.

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  Opinion: How I Would Vote in the Greek Referendum

  Neither alternative approval or rejection of the terms Greece has been presented with will be easy, and both carry huge risks, says Joseph E. Stiglitz.

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  Regulatory Policy Work Wins France's Jean Tirole Economics Nobel

  French economist Jean Tirole won the 2014 Nobel Prize for economics for his work that has shed light on how governments should regulate powerful companies that dominate markets, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences said on Monday.

• IEA Appoints World Bank's Kaushik Basu as President-Elect

  The International Economic Association (IEA) has appointed Kaushik Basu, who is Chief Economist and Senior Vice President of the World Bank, as its president-elect.

• Central banks should not look only at inflation target: Montek

  Ahead of a quarterly policy review by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI), Planning Commission Deputy Chairman Montek Singh Ahluwalia has said controlling inflation should not be the only target of central banks.

• RBI governor to attend IMF conference in April

  Reserve Bank of India governor Duvvuri Subbarao will share his perspective at an International Monetary Fund conference next month in Washington that will discuss policy pursued by various governments in the aftermath of global financial crisis.

• Budget 2013: Chidambaram wins applause from members by invoking poets, scholars in speech

  Finance Minister P Chidambaram's low-key budget presentation won applause from members as he seasoned it with a fair sprinkling of quotations from poets and scholars, and highlighted sensitive issues that struck a chord with even those seated on the opposition benches.

• Will smart machines create a world without work?

  They seem right out of a Hollywood fantasy, and they are: Cars that drive themselves have appeared in movies like "I, Robot" and the television show "Knight Rider."

• New banks welcome, but systemic controls important: Uday Kotak

  Conglomerates being considered for new banking licences in India should be asked to have systemic controls to safeguard against any contagion impact of problems in their other businesses, eminent banker Uday Kotak has said.

• Euro crisis could flare up again: Stiglitz

  Nobel laureate and noted economist Joseph E Stiglitz today said that India has the ability to grow at a faster rate, but it needs to focus on solving issues related to infrastructure, inequality, education and agriculture.

• GDP not adequate measure of progress: Stiglitz

  Stating the gross domestic product (GDP) is not an adequate measure of human well being and progress, Nobel Laureate and professor of Economics Joseph E Stiglitz today said there is a need to develop alternative and more comprehensive measures to gauge progress.

• Government should play role in land acquisition: Joseph Stiglitz

  He said that land acquisition was really a sensitive issue across the world.