Europe is a continent, a political space, an idea. It is also a geography, a history, a set of values. Nobel Prize winner in Economics, committed and world-renowned intellectual, professor at Columbia University, Joseph E. Stiglitz, born in the United States, will discuss from Belgrade his Europe, the one of yesterday, today and tomorrow, from a personal, intellectual and political perspective.
Monday, 15 December 2025 at 6 p.m.
Europe House in Belgrade
Conversation will be moderated by Amos Reichman, director of the French Institute in Serbia
Conversation will be in English, with simultaneous translation to Serbian and French.
Joseph E. Stiglitz is an American economist and a professor at Columbia University. He is also the co-chair of The Independent Commission for the Reform of International Corporate Taxation (ICRICT) and the Chief Economist of the Roosevelt Institute. Stiglitz was awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics in 2001. He is a former senior vice president and chief economist of the World Bank and a former member and chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers. Stiglitz founded the Initiative for Policy Dialogue, a think tank on international development based at Columbia University, in 2000. He has been a member of the Columbia faculty since 2001 and received that university’s highest academic rank (University Professor) in 2003. In 2011 Stiglitz was named by Time magazine as one of the 100 most influential people in the world. In 2024 he was named an Honorary Academician by the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences and in 2025 Pope Francesco named him a Chair of the Jubilee Commission of Experts to address Debt and Development Crises.
He is the author of numerous books, including, most recently,
The Road to Freedom: Economics and the Good Society and The Origins of Inequality & Policies to Contain It.); The Great Divide: Unequal Societies and What We Can Do About Them); People, Power, and Profits. Progressive Capitalism for an Age of Discontent), Euro How a Common Currency Threatens the Future of Europe).
His last book is titled The Road to Freedom: Economics and the Good Society et The Origins of Inequality & Policies to Contain It