Our Most Widely Ignored Public Intellectuals

A prophet, says the Bible, is not without honor save in his own country. As the most prestigious economic dissenters of this era, Joseph Stiglitz and Paul Krugman form a category of two: astonishingly prescient, widely read, and largely ignored by those in power. Both won Nobel Prizes for their early virtuoso technical economic work. Stiglitz’s research, starting in the late 1960s, showed that markets do not follow the standard economic model of ... Full Story »