Sobre Joe Stiglitz

Há dois Stiglitz, um é um excelente economista, o outro um comunista. Guy Sorman escreve sobre a esquizofrenia intellectual de Stiglitz: "Stiglitz does not hesitate to borrow from and update the Marxist agenda. Where Marx saw a system in crisis from capitalism, Stiglitz blames globalization. As Marx was in his day, Stiglitz has become a prophet of doom: the economic system will inevitably fail. There is no easier job in politics than being a prophet of doom: you just wait for the next downturn and claim that you predicted it. Doomsaying is not a scientific position, however, only a political posture. Since economics follows cycles, the only useful information would be to determine a rationale behind these cycles and be able to predict the exact dates of booms and busts. Neither Stiglitz nor any other economist can predict these cycles".