2024-06-26
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hello, everyone, and welcome back to conversations with Tyler.
Today I'm with Joseph Stiglitz.
He has won a Nobel Prize in economics, and if they did such things, he could have won several Nobel prizes in economics.
He has a 153 page Vida online, which is neither complete nor really has any Schaff.
Most notably today he has a new book out called the road to Freedom, Economics and the Good Society.
Joe, welcome.
Nice to be here.
I'd like to talk about just how your career has evolved.
So there's an anecdote.
I read your breakthrough piece.
We're going back now to about 1970.
You're writing with Michael Rothschild on the issue of increasing risk.
And I read that these two pieces, they actually came from an eight hour lecture you gave in Japan.
Is that true?
Well, actually not those two pieces, but a series of pieces on corporate governance and market value maximization came from an eight hour lecture I gave in Koni, Japan.
How can you lecture for 8 hours?
It's easier to lecture than to listen for 8 hours.
I didn't understand that then, but I now understand it a little bit better.