JOSEPH STIGLITZ usually teaches at New York’s Columbia University, but now the Nobel Prize-winning economist is coming to Britain as part of Labour’s bid to challenge the Tories’ austerity claptrap.
The Price of Inequality author will deliver one of nine free public lectures announced by Labour yesterday.
The New Economics series starts next Tuesday when Professor Mariana Mazzucato, author of the Entrepreneurial State: Debunking Public v Private Sector Myths, delivers a talk on “market fixing to market creating and shaping.”
Colombia’s success in controlling the drug trade should be recognised and its sovereignty respected, argues Dr GLORY SAAVEDRA
From hunting rare pamphlets at book sales to online panels and courses on trade unionism and class politics, the MML continues connecting archive treasures with the movements fighting for a better world, writes director MEIRIAN JUMP
Our two-tear Chancellor’s woes at PMQs caused a multimillion-pound sinking feeling on the bond market, writes ANDREW MURRAY
Ahead of next year’s parliamentary elections, ROZ FOYER warns that a bold tax policy is needed to rebuild devastated public services which can serve as the foundation of a strong, fair economy


