The road to freedom : economics and the good society /
Joseph E. Stiglitz.
- New York, NY : W. W. Norton & Company ; 2024.
- xxiv, 356 pages ; 25 cm
Includes bibliographical referenc
Preface Introduction: Freedom in Danger How Economists Think About Freedom
Part I. Liberty and Freedom: Basic Principles 3. One Person’s Freedom Is Another Person’s Unfreedom 4. Freedom Through Coercion: Public Goods and the Free-Rider Problem 5. Contracts, the Social Contract, and Freedom 6. Freedom, a Competitive Economy, and Social Justice 7. The Freedom to Exploit
Part II. Freedom, Beliefs, and Preferences, and the Creation of the Good Society 8. Social Coercion and Social Cohesion 9. The Concerted Shaping of Individuals and Their Beliefs 10. Tolerance, Social Solidarity, and Freedom
Part III. What Kind of Economy Promotes a Good, Just, and Free Society? 11. Neoliberal Capitalism: Why It Failed 12. Freedom, Sovereignty, and Coercion Among States 13. Progressive Capitalism, Social Democracy, and a Learning Society 14. Democracy, Freedom, Social Justice, and the Good Society
Acknowledgments Notes
In The Road to Freedom, Nobel prize winner Joseph E. Stiglitz dissects America’s current economic system and the political ideology that created it, laying bare their twinned failure. “Free” and unfettered markets have only succeeded in delivering a series of crises: the financial crisis, the opioid crisis, and the crisis of inequality. While a small portion of the population has amassed considerable wealth, wages for most people have stagnated. Free and unfettered markets have exploited consumers, workers, and the environment alike. Such failures have fed populist movements that believe being free means abandoning any obligations citizens have to one another. As they grow in strength, these movements now pose a real threat to true economic and political freedom