Economist Joseph Stiglitz: US-China Trade war and The Death of ‘Hyper-Globalization’ | South China Morning Post 14 October 2024

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Economist Joseph Stiglitz on the US-China trade war and the death of ‘hyper-globalization’

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Kinling Loin Beijing
Published: 6:00am, 14 Oct 2024 Updated: 9:17am, 14 Oct 2024
American economist Joseph Stiglitz, who won the Nobel Prize for economics in 2001, served as chairman of the Clinton administration’s Council of Economic Advisers. 

He is a professor at Columbia University and a former chief economist at the World Bank
Stiglitz spoke to the Post about the US-China trade war, the economic ramifications of next month’s presidential election in the United States and the future of globalization. 

This interview first appeared in SCMP Plus. 

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