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Stiglitz and the WEF: Making the Connection between Climate Change and Economics | Common Dreams

Stiglitz and the WEF: Making the Connection between Climate Change and Economics | Common Dreams
"The World Economic Forum kicks off in Davos this week. Why is the WEF vital for climate change? As Greenpeace's Kumi Naidoo put it, "to appeal to the most powerful that they have to move beyond an obsession with preserving a system that drives economic inequality, environmental destruction and violence"."

Joseph Stiglitz Calls to Abolish the Capitalist Church of Self-Interest | Alternet

Joseph Stiglitz Calls to Abolish the Capitalist Church of Self-Interest | Alternet
"Even after a terrible financial crisis exposed their folly, the High Priests of Old Time Economics still speak the cold, barren language of self-interest. Acting solely in your own interest, they preach, is the key to efficiency and human well-being.

Not Joseph Stiglitz. Wednesday night, the Nobel Prize-winner spoke to a packed chapel at New York City’s Union Theological Seminary, which, along with the Institute for New Economic Thinking (INET), a New York-based think tank, hosted the first conversation in a brand-new series meant to change the way we understand economic issues.  Union Theological Seminary president Dr. Serene Jones, INET Executive Director Robert Johnson, Professor Gary Dorrien of Union Theological Seminary and Columbia University, and Betty Sue Flowers, Director of the Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum, joined Stiglitz to talk about the topic at hand: “Economics & Theology"."